From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756781Ab1ISQmZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:42:25 -0400 Received: from mx2.parallels.com ([64.131.90.16]:54291 "EHLO mx2.parallels.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756727Ab1ISQmY (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:42:24 -0400 Message-ID: <4E7770BD.6050902@parallels.com> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:41:33 -0300 From: Glauber Costa User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110906 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Zijlstra CC: , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] Remove parent field in cpuacct cgroup References: <1316030695-19826-1-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <1316030695-19826-2-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <1316448186.1511.19.camel@twins> <4E776937.1070108@parallels.com> <1316449160.6091.5.camel@twins> <4E776E36.6040906@parallels.com> <1316450385.6091.9.camel@twins> In-Reply-To: <1316450385.6091.9.camel@twins> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [187.106.51.14] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/19/2011 01:39 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 13:30 -0300, Glauber Costa wrote: >> Since this value is at least intended to >> provide a basis for cpu capping in the near future (Well, it is not >> there, but I think it is), it is expected to be used much more >> frequently by the kernel itself. > > We just merged a bandwidth limiter quite separate from cpuacct. Note I was talking about cpuusage. Well, in this case, I myself fail to see the value of the whole cpuusage thing... Someone that sees further could maybe help us out here? (but this is sideways to the whole discussion we're having anyway)