Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH v3] sched: automated per tty task groups

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/16/2010 12:05 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Tue, 16.11.10 19:08, Peter Zijlstra (a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 18:03 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>>> Binding something like this to TTYs is just backwards. No graphical
>>> session has a TTY attached anymore. And there might be multiple TTYs
>>> used in the same session. 
>>
>> Using a group per tty makes sense for us console jockeys..
> 
> Well, then maybe you shouldn't claim this was relevant for anybody but
> yourself. Because it is irrelevant for most users if it is bound to the TTY.
> 

For what it's worth, I suspect that the object that should be bound to
is probably not the tty, but rather the session ID of the process (which
generally is 1:1 with controlling TTY for console processes.)

	-hpa
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