Re: [RFC v3 0/5] Add capacity capping support to the CPU controller

Tejun Heo
2017-03-20T14:51:31Z

Hello, Patrick.

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 02:38:37PM +0000, Patrick Bellasi wrote:
> a) Boosting of important tasks, by enforcing a minimum capacity in the
> CPUs where they are enqueued for execution.
> b) Capping of background tasks, by enforcing a maximum capacity.
> c) Containment of OPPs for RT tasks which cannot easily be switched to
> the usage of the DL class, but still don't need to run at the maximum
> frequency.

As this is something completely new, I think it'd be a great idea to
give a couple concerete examples in the head message to help people
understand what it's for.

Thanks.

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tejun