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

From: Samuel Thibault
Date: Thu Nov 18 2010 - 19:42:18 EST


H. Peter Anvin, le Thu 18 Nov 2010 16:35:59 -0800, a écrit :
> 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.)

Agreed.

That'll catch both the tty case (implemented by the proposed patch), and
the rest.

Samuel
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