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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] sched/fair: cpu time reserves for cgroups
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 13:18:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160516111849.GN3193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <146339085068.25295.7687045977863852568.stgit@buzz>

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 12:36:19PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> This feature allows to change cpu cgroup weight for a limited time.
> 
> Cgroup interface:
> cpu.cfs_reserve_us      - reserved time for each cpu.cfs_period_us
> cpu.cfs_reserve_shares  - group weight during reserved time
> 
> While cfs group consumes reserved cpu time it has different weight,
> thus it gets different vruntime penalty for that execution.
> 
>         ^ weight
>         |
>         |
> reserve |
> shares  -------*
>         |      |
>         |      |
>         |      |
> shares  -      *-----------------*
>         |                        |
>         |                        |
>         0------|-----------------|-----------> time
>                reserve           quota
> 
> Reserve can work as a "low limit": boost weight for "guaranteed" time,
> and as a "high limit": give normal weight for a limited time and allow
> utilize cpu when nobody else needs it.
> 

You forgot to explain why I should care about this.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-16 11:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-16  9:36 [PATCH RFC 0/3] sched/fair: cpu time reserves for cgroups Konstantin Khlebnikov
2016-05-16  9:36 ` [PATCH RFC 1/3] sched/fair: call __refill_cfs_bandwidth_runtime only for finite quota Konstantin Khlebnikov
2016-05-16  9:36 ` [PATCH RFC 2/3] sched/fair: copy taskgroup shares to each cfs_rq Konstantin Khlebnikov
2016-05-16  9:36 ` [PATCH RFC 3/3] sched/fair: pulse-weight modulation controller for cpu cgroup Konstantin Khlebnikov
2016-05-16 11:18 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-05-16 12:22   ` [PATCH RFC 0/3] sched/fair: cpu time reserves for cgroups Konstantin Khlebnikov
2016-05-16 12:26     ` Peter Zijlstra

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