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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xemul@parallels.com,
	paul@paulmenage.org, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, daniel.lezcano@free.fr,
	mingo@elte.hu, jbottomley@parallels.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] Remove parent field in cpuacct cgroup
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:35:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1316788526.9084.45.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKTCnzk_NoBxQypJBsX9O56=F6z_7HdPY1HW=G=2AkM9tpkbaw@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 13:39 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> >> Android makes heavy use of cpuacct as well. We invented it to do cpu
> >> accounting independent of control
> >
> > But its a massive waste of time to have to iterate a double hierarchy,
> > cache-miss heaven.
> >
> 
> By double hierarchy you mean both cpu and cpuacct? 

Yes

> What if they are not mounted together?

I was asking if there was a real reason not to have that.

> > Or so people really have independent cgroups as well? I thought people
> > just co-mount all this crap.
> >
> 
> Please see
> http://code.google.com/p/cgroupmgr/wiki/cgroupsForAndroid
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6814207/android-cpuacct-usage-file
> 
> AFAIK, some versions mount cpuacct at /acct and independent of cpu cgroups

They do now, but can that be fixed? Is there a sane use-case?

Overhead really must come down of all this crap.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-23 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-14 20:04 [PATCH 0/9] Per-cgroup /proc/stat Glauber Costa
2011-09-14 20:04 ` [PATCH 1/9] Remove parent field in cpuacct cgroup Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 16:03   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-19 16:09     ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 16:19       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-19 16:30         ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 16:39           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-19 16:41             ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 18:40               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-20 17:29                 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-09-22 15:11                   ` Balbir Singh
2011-09-22 15:17                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-23  8:09                       ` Balbir Singh
2011-09-23 14:35                         ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-09-23 15:45                         ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 18:35           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-19 18:38             ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 18:44               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-19 19:14                 ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 19:18                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-19 19:19                     ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-14 20:04 ` [PATCH 2/9] Make cpuacct fields per cpu variables Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 16:10   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-14 20:04 ` [PATCH 3/9] Include nice values in cpuacct Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 16:19   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-19 16:26     ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 18:36       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-19 18:37         ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-14 20:04 ` [PATCH 4/9] Include irq and softirq fields " Glauber Costa
2011-09-19 18:38   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-19 18:40     ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-14 20:04 ` [PATCH 5/9] Include guest " Glauber Costa
2011-09-14 20:04 ` [PATCH 6/9] Include idle and iowait " Glauber Costa
2011-09-20  9:21   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-20 12:36     ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-20 12:58       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-20 12:58         ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-20 13:05           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-20 13:29             ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-14 20:04 ` [PATCH 7/9] Create cpuacct.proc.stat file Glauber Costa
2011-09-20  9:22   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-20 12:22     ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-14 20:04 ` [PATCH 8/9] per-cgroup boot time Glauber Costa
2011-09-20  9:25   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-20 12:37     ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-20 13:04       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-20 13:06         ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-20 13:31           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-14 20:04 ` [PATCH 9/9] Report steal time for cgroup Glauber Costa
2011-09-20  9:29   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-14 20:13 ` [PATCH 0/9] Per-cgroup /proc/stat Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-14 20:20   ` Glauber Costa
2011-09-15  8:53     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-14 20:23   ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-15  8:56     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-19 23:07       ` Paul Turner
2011-09-20  8:33         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-20 21:37         ` Glauber Costa

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