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From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>,
	Srivatsa <vatsa@in.ibm.com>,
	CKRM <ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>,
	Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
	Kingsley Cheung <kingsley@aurema.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Subject: Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/4] sched: Add CPU rate caps
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:55:12 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4496F310.9010807@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060618082638.6061.20172.sendpatchset@heathwren.pw.nest>

Peter Williams wrote:
> These patches implement CPU usage rate limits for tasks.

Personally, I'm more comfortable with guarantees rather than limits.

Specifying a limit doesn't do anything to ensure that a task (or group 
of tasks) gets enough cpu time to actually accomplish anything unless 
you specify limits on every task in the system.

Suppose you have a server app that needs at least 50% of the cpu.  With 
a guarantee, you can say "this guy needs 50%, and I don't care about 
anything else".  With limits you have to flip it around--"all these guys 
together are limited to 50%, and that guy isn't limited".  Seems 
counterintuitive.

Chris



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-19 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-18  8:26 [PATCH 0/4] sched: Add CPU rate caps Peter Williams
2006-06-18  8:26 ` [PATCH 1/4] sched: Add CPU rate soft caps Peter Williams
2006-06-18  8:38   ` Con Kolivas
2006-06-18 15:52     ` Peter Williams
2006-06-19  1:21   ` Peter Williams
2006-06-18  8:26 ` [PATCH 2/4] sched: Add CPU rate hard caps Peter Williams
2006-06-18  8:27 ` [PATCH 3/4] sched: Add procfs interface for CPU rate soft caps Peter Williams
2006-06-18  8:27 ` [PATCH 4/4] sched: Add procfs interface for CPU rate hard caps Peter Williams
2006-06-18  9:50 ` [PATCH 0/4] sched: Add CPU rate caps Andrew Morton
2006-06-18 10:25   ` Peter Williams
2006-06-18 11:42     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2006-06-18 12:19       ` Peter Williams
2006-06-19  0:13     ` Balbir Singh
2006-06-19  1:03       ` [ckrm-tech] " Peter Williams
2006-06-19  2:20         ` Balbir Singh
2006-06-19  3:17           ` Peter Williams
2006-06-19  3:31             ` Balbir Singh
2006-06-19  3:50               ` Peter Williams
2006-06-19  8:30                 ` Balbir Singh
2006-06-19 11:35                   ` Peter Williams
2006-06-19 11:33                     ` Balbir Singh
2006-06-19 23:09                       ` Peter Williams
2006-06-20  4:28           ` Peter Williams
2006-06-20  4:40             ` Balbir Singh
2006-06-20  5:56               ` Peter Williams
2006-06-19  5:04     ` Peter Williams
2006-06-19 23:59   ` Peter Williams
2006-06-19 18:55 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2006-06-19 23:28   ` [ckrm-tech] " Peter Williams

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