From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>,
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>,
Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 0/8] CFS Hard limits - v2
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:10:27 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC374E3.9000308@openvz.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090930143820.GG3071@balbir.in.ibm.com>
Balbir Singh wrote:
> * Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> [2009-09-30 17:36:29]:
>
>> Bharata B Rao wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Here is the v2 post of hard limits feature for CFS group scheduler. This
>>> RFC post mainly adds runtime borrowing feature and has a new locking scheme
>>> to protect CFS runtime related fields.
>>>
>>> It would be nice to have some comments on this set!
>> I have a question I'd like to ask before diving into the code.
>> Consider I'm a user, that has a 4CPUs box 2GHz each and I'd like
>> to create a container with 2CPUs 1GHz each. Can I achieve this
>> after your patches?
>
> I don't think the GHz makes any sense, consider CPUs with frequency
> scaling. If I can scale from 1.6GHz to say 2.6GHz or 2GHz to 4GHz,
> what does it mean for hard limit control? Hard limits define control
> over existing bandwidth, anything else would be superficial and hard
> hard to get right for both developers and users.
Two numbers for configuring limits make even less sense OTOH ;)
By assigning 2GHz for 4GHz CPU I obviously want half of its power ;)
Please, see my reply to vatsa@ in this thread.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-30 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-30 12:49 [RFC v2 PATCH 0/8] CFS Hard limits - v2 Bharata B Rao
2009-09-30 12:50 ` [RFC v2 PATCH 1/8] sched: Rename sched_rt_period_mask() and use it in CFS also Bharata B Rao
2009-09-30 12:51 ` [RFC v2 PATCH 2/8] sched: Maintain aggregated tasks count in cfs_rq at each hierarchy level Bharata B Rao
2009-10-13 14:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-14 3:42 ` Bharata B Rao
2009-09-30 12:52 ` [RFC v2 PATCH 3/8] sched: Bandwidth initialization for fair task groups Bharata B Rao
2009-10-13 14:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-14 3:49 ` Bharata B Rao
2009-09-30 12:52 ` [RFC v2 PATCH 4/8] sched: Enforce hard limits by throttling Bharata B Rao
2009-10-13 14:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-14 3:41 ` Bharata B Rao
2009-10-14 9:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-14 11:50 ` Bharata B Rao
2009-10-14 13:18 ` Herbert Poetzl
2009-10-15 3:30 ` Bharata B Rao
2009-09-30 12:53 ` [RFC v2 PATCH 5/8] sched: Unthrottle the throttled tasks Bharata B Rao
2009-09-30 12:54 ` [RFC v2 PATCH 6/8] sched: Add throttle time statistics to /proc/sched_debug Bharata B Rao
2009-09-30 12:55 ` [RFC v2 PATCH 7/8] sched: Rebalance cfs runtimes Bharata B Rao
2009-09-30 12:55 ` [RFC v2 PATCH 8/8] sched: Hard limits documentation Bharata B Rao
2009-09-30 13:36 ` [RFC v2 PATCH 0/8] CFS Hard limits - v2 Pavel Emelyanov
2009-09-30 14:25 ` Bharata B Rao
2009-09-30 14:39 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2009-09-30 15:09 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2009-10-13 11:39 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2009-10-13 12:03 ` Herbert Poetzl
2009-10-13 12:19 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2009-10-13 12:30 ` Dhaval Giani
2009-10-13 12:45 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2009-10-13 12:56 ` Dhaval Giani
2009-10-13 12:57 ` Bharata B Rao
2009-10-13 13:01 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2009-10-13 14:56 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-10-13 22:02 ` Herbert Poetzl
2009-10-13 14:49 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-09-30 14:38 ` Balbir Singh
2009-09-30 15:10 ` Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2009-09-30 15:30 ` Balbir Singh
2009-09-30 22:30 ` Herbert Poetzl
2009-10-01 5:12 ` Bharata B Rao
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