lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2011]   [Jan]   [12]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [patch] Re: autogroup: sched_setscheduler() fails
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:47:19AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 13:36 +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 08:24:41AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > > Yes, it's supposed to be transparent to cgroups.
> >
> > If cgroups doesn't want that task and if its transparent to cgroups,
> > why is it shown as part of /cgroups/tasks ? The task really doesn't
> > belong in there. Its not on the runqueue of root_task_group.
> >
> > So basically I feel that a task consumed by autogroup shouldn't ideally be
> > shown in root cgroup's tasks file.
>
> >From cgroups' viewpoint, root is where it's at. The task isn't consumed
> by autogroup either, it's only borrowed until cgroups claims it.
>
> Would you prefer that when you mount /cgroups, you see a nearly empty
> root task list because box was booted with autogroup enabled?

If I had my way, I would say yes :) I would even say make autogroups visible
so that we know exactly what it is. Let 'auto' in autogroups mean only
'automatic' and not necessarily 'hidden'.

> Should
> tasks appear and disappear on the fly while you're watching?

Why would they unless we explicitly move them ?

Anyway I guess you would have gone through these questions already.
Thanks for patiently answering :)

Regards,
Bharata.


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2011-01-12 10:29    [W:0.042 / U:1.196 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site