Mike Galbraith wrote:
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 10:08 +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
Mike Galbraith wrote:
How? How would you deal with the make example with per task caps.
I'd build a resource management tool that uses task statistics, nice and
caps to manage CPU resource allocation. This could be a plug in kernel
module or a user space daemon. It doesn't need to be in the scheduler.
Ok, you _can_ gather statistics, and modify caps/nice on the fly... for
long running tasks. How long does a task have to exist before you have
statistics for it so you can manage it?
If the stats package is up to scratch it will provide stats for tasks
that have exited so you will be able to charge their resource usage to
the higher level entity and still manage that entity's usage properly
via its other tasks.
Also, if you're going to need a separate resource manager to allocate,
monitor and modify in realtime, why not go whole hog, and allocate and
monitor instances of uml. It'd be a heck of a lot easier.
Or Xen. Or Vmware. That would be one solution and brings other
functionality that may be desirable. Of course, you can also do
resource control within those instances as well :-).
"There's more than one way to skin a cat" as the old saying goes.
Peter
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