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    SubjectRe: [RFC/RFT PATCH v3] sched: automated per tty task groups
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    On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 00:12 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
    > Hans-Peter Jansen, le Thu 18 Nov 2010 23:33:46 +0100, a écrit :
    > > As already mentioned countless times (and some of it was even renamed
    > > for this very fact): the grouping by tty is just a starter. There are
    > > plenty of other possibilities to group the scheduling. The hard part is
    > > to find the right grouping concepts, that are making sense in the
    > > usability department _and_ are easy enough to be picked up from our
    > > favorite system and desktop environments. That's where the generic
    > > cgroup concept seems to be lacking ATM..
    >
    > Actually, cgroups should probably be completely hierarchical: sessions
    > contain process groups, which contain processes, which contain threads.
    > You could also gather sessions with the same uid.

    Hierarchical is ~tempting, but adds overhead for not much gain.

    -Mike

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