Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:16:00 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: A Plumber’s Wish List for Linux |
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Useful email, thanks.
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:17:02 +0200 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> We___d like to share our current wish list of plumbing layer features we
gargh. gmail?
> > ... > > * fork throttling mechanism as basic cgroup functionality that is > available in all hierarchies independent of the controllers used: > This is important to implement race-free killing of all members of a > cgroup, so that cgroup member processes cannot fork faster then a cgroup > supervisor process could kill them. This needs to be recursive, so that > not only a cgroup but all its subgroups are covered as well.
Frederic Weisbecker's "cgroups: add a task counter subsystem" should address this. Does it meet these requirments? Have you tested it?
> > ... > > * Add a timerslack cgroup controller, to allow increasing the timer > slack of user session cgroups when the machine is idle.
Kirill Shutemov has just posted "cgroups: introduce timer slack controller". Again, is that sufficient? Have you reviewed and tested it?
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