Nick Piggin wrote:
I think a proportional-share scheduler (which is what a CPU controller
may provide) has non-container uses also. Do you think nice (or sched
policy) is enough to, say, provide guaranteed CPU usage for
applications or limit their CPU usage? Moreover it is more flexible
if guarantee/limit can be specified for a group of tasks, rather than
individual tasks even in
non-container scenarios (like limiting CPU usage of all web-server
tasks togther or for limiting CPU usage of make -j command).
Oh, I'm sure there are lots of things we *could* do that we currently
can't.
What I want to establish first is: what exact functionality is
required, why, and by whom.
You make it sound like users should feel sorry for wanting features
already commonly available on other high performance unix kernels.
The answer is quite simple, people who are consolidating systems and
working with fewer, larger systems, want to mark processes, groups of
processes or entire containers into CPU scheduling classes, then either
fair balance between them, limit them or reserve them a portion of the
CPU - depending on the user and what their requirements are. What is
unclear about that?
Yes, this does get somewhat simpler if you strap yourself into a
complete virtualisation straightjacket, but the current thread is not
about that approach - and the continual suggestions that we are all just
being stupid and going about it the wrong way are locally off-topic.
Bear in mind that we have on the table at least one group of scheduling
solutions (timeslice scaling based ones, such as the VServer one) which
is virtually no overhead and could potentially provide the "jumpers"
necessary for implementing more complex scheduling policies.
Sam.
Only then can we sanely discuss the fitness of solutions and propose
alternatives, and decide whether to merge.
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