Re: Revert for cgroups CPU accounting subsystem patch

[Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Paul Menage wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2007 11:00 PM, Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Right now, one of the limitations of the CPU controller is that
>> the moment you create another control group, the bandwidth gets
>> divided by the default number of shares. We can't create groups
>> just for monitoring.
> 
> Could we get around this with, say, a flag that always treats a CFS
> schedulable entity as having a weight equal to the number of runnable
> tasks in it? So CPU bandwidth would be shared between groups in
> proportion to the number of runnable tasks, which would distribute the
> cycles approximately equivalently to them all being separate
> schedulable entities.
> 

I think it's a good hack, but not sure about the complexity to implement
the code. I worry that if the number of tasks increase (say run into
thousands for one or more groups and a few groups have just a few
tasks), we'll lose out on accuracy.

>> cpu_acct fills this gap.
> 
> Agreed, but not in the right way IMO.
> 

I think we already have the code, we need to make it more useful and
reusable.

-- 
	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL
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