From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com>,
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] workqueue: Add an API to create a singlethread workqueue attached to the current task's cgroup
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 18:15:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BFE9ABA.6030907@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100527131254.GB7974@redhat.com>
Hello,
On 05/27/2010 03:12 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> I don't understand the reasons for this patch, but this doesn't matter.
>
> Depending on userspace application, driver can create a lot of work
> for a workqueue to handle. By making the workqueue thread
> belong in a cgroup, we make it possible to the CPU and other
> resources thus consumed.
Hmmm.... I don't really get it. The unit of scheduling in workqueue
is a work. Unless you're gonna convert every driver to use this
special kind of workqueue (and what happens when multiple tasks from
different cgroups share the driver?), I can't see how this is gonna be
useful. If you really wanna impose cgroup control on workqueue items,
you'll have to do it per work item which might lead to the problem of
priority inversion. Can you please describe what you're trying to do
in more detail?
Thank you.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-27 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 115+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-19 0:04 [PATCH 2/3] workqueue: Add an API to create a singlethread workqueue attached to the current task's cgroup Sridhar Samudrala
2010-05-27 9:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-05-27 12:44 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-27 13:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-05-27 13:48 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-27 16:15 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2010-05-27 16:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-05-27 16:56 ` Tejun Heo
2010-05-27 17:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-05-27 21:20 ` Tejun Heo
2010-05-28 15:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-05-28 15:54 ` Tejun Heo
2010-05-30 11:29 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-05-30 20:24 ` [PATCH 1/3] vhost: replace vhost_workqueue with per-vhost kthread Tejun Heo
2010-05-31 14:39 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-31 15:07 ` Tejun Heo
2010-05-31 15:31 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-31 15:38 ` Tejun Heo
2010-05-31 15:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-05-31 15:45 ` Tejun Heo
2010-05-31 16:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-06-01 9:34 ` Tejun Heo
2010-06-02 18:40 ` [PATCH UPDATED " Tejun Heo
2010-06-02 21:34 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2010-07-22 15:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-22 21:21 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-24 19:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-25 7:41 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-25 10:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-26 15:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-26 15:34 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-26 15:46 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-26 15:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-26 15:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-26 16:05 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-26 16:14 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-26 16:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-26 18:51 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-26 19:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-27 8:18 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-26 16:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-26 19:14 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-26 19:31 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-26 19:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-27 19:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-28 7:48 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-28 10:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-28 12:00 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-26 16:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-26 16:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-26 19:04 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-26 20:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-27 8:21 ` Tejun Heo
2010-06-01 9:34 ` [PATCH 2/3] cgroups: Add an API to attach a task to current task's cgroup Tejun Heo
2010-06-01 9:35 ` [PATCH 3/3] vhost: apply cpumask and cgroup to vhost workers Tejun Heo
2010-06-01 10:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-06-01 10:56 ` Tejun Heo
2010-06-01 17:19 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2010-06-01 23:59 ` Tejun Heo
2010-06-01 14:13 ` [PATCH 1/3] vhost: replace vhost_workqueue with per-vhost kthread Paul E. McKenney
2010-05-30 20:24 ` [PATCH 2/3] cgroups: Add an API to attach a task to current task's cgroup Tejun Heo
2010-05-31 1:07 ` Li Zefan
2010-05-31 7:00 ` Tejun Heo
2010-05-30 20:25 ` [PATCH 3/3] vhost: apply cpumask and cgroup to vhost pollers Tejun Heo
2010-05-31 1:11 ` Li Zefan
2010-05-31 6:58 ` [PATCH UPDATED " Tejun Heo
2010-05-31 7:48 ` Li Zefan
2010-05-31 10:20 ` [PATCH UPDATED2 " Tejun Heo
2010-06-24 8:11 ` [PATCH " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-06-24 22:45 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2010-06-25 10:10 ` [PATCH] sched: export sched_set/getaffinity (was Re: [PATCH 3/3] vhost: apply cpumask and cgroup to vhost pollers) Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-01 11:07 ` [PATCH repost] sched: export sched_set/getaffinity to modules Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-01 11:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-01 11:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-01 11:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-01 12:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-01 12:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-01 12:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-01 13:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-01 13:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-01 13:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-01 13:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-01 14:27 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-01 14:46 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-01 14:53 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-01 14:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-02 18:01 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2010-07-02 18:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-02 21:06 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-04 9:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-13 6:59 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2010-07-13 11:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-14 23:26 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2010-07-15 0:05 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-15 5:29 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2010-07-26 17:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-26 17:51 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2010-07-26 18:08 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-26 19:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-26 20:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-27 4:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-08-04 10:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-27 15:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-30 14:19 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-30 14:31 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-01 8:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-08-02 15:02 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-01 14:33 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-07-01 12:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-01 12:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-01 13:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-01 13:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-05-27 16:24 ` [PATCH 2/3] workqueue: Add an API to create a singlethread workqueue attached to the current task's cgroup Sridhar Samudrala
2010-05-27 16:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-05-27 17:30 ` Oleg Nesterov
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