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From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Don't allow priority switch to realtime when the task doesn't belong to init_task_group and when CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED isn't set
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:51:07 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <492C491B.8060103@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1227540990.4259.296.camel@twins>

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 09:24 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> 
>>Peter Zijlstra wrote:

>>>Furthermore your statement shows another misconception, a group of
>>>ungrouped tasks doesn't make sense.
>>
>>Arguably there is such a group, which is "the set of all RT tasks".
> 
> 
> Sure, I understand that, and in fact that's how its implemented, no
> group is still one group (which is how you can bootstrap math from
> group/set theory).
> 
> But its not a manageable group in the cgroup sense, its just the
> collection of RT tasks.

True, but it would be valuable to have statistics for how much cpu time 
the RT tasks are consuming.

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-25 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-20  6:18 [PATCH] sched: Don't allow priority switch to realtime when the task doesn't belong to init_task_group and when CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED isn't set Bharata B Rao
2008-11-20  7:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-20  8:03   ` Dhaval Giani
2008-11-20  8:17     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-20  8:19   ` Bharata B Rao
2008-11-23  1:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-24  3:58   ` Bharata B Rao
2008-11-24  8:32     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-24  8:46       ` Dhaval Giani
2008-11-24  9:06         ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-24 15:24           ` Chris Friesen
2008-11-24 15:36             ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-25 18:51               ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2008-11-25 20:17                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-24 17:05       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2008-11-24 18:46         ` Peter Zijlstra

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