Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> For example, maybe we can approximate it by spreading out the 
> statistics: right now you have things like
> 
>  - last_ran, wait_runtime, sum_wait_runtime..
> 
> be per-thread things. [...]

yes, yes, yes! :) My thinking is "struct sched_group" embedded into 
_arbitrary_ other resource containers and abstractions, which 
sched_group's are then in a simple hierarchy and are driven by the core 
scheduling machinery.

> [...] Maybe some of those can be spread out, so that you put a part of 
> them in the "struct vm_struct" thing (to approximate processes), part 
> of them in the "struct user" struct (to approximate the user-level 
> thing), and part of it in a per-container thing for when/if we support 
> that kind of thing?

yes.

	Ingo
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