Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Date | Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:08:49 -0800 | | Subject | Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH v3] sched: automated per tty task groups |
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: >> Well, if I make behaviour like this default in systemd, then this means >> there won't be user setup for this. Because the distros shipping systemd >> will get this as default behaviour. > > And within the desktop where would you put this - in the window manager > on the basis of top level windows or in the app startup ?
Btw, I suspect either of these are reasonable. In fact, I don't think it would be at all wrong to have the desktop launcher have an option to "launch in a group" (although I think it would need to be named better than that). Right now, when you create desktop launchers under at least gnome, it allows you to specify a "type" for the application ("Application" or "Application in Terminal"), and maybe there could be a "CPU-bound application" choice that would set it in a CPU group of its own. Or whatever.
So I do _not_ believe that the autogroup feature should necessarily mean that you cannot do other grouping decisions too. I just do think that the whole notion of "it got started from a tty" is actually a very useful thing for legacy applications, and one where it's just simpler to do it in the kernel than build up any extra infrastructure for it.
So it's not necessarily at all an "either-or" thing.
Linus
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