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

[Mike Galbraith]

On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 20:33 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:41 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > So the set of all tasks that never call proc_set_tty() ends up in the same one
> > > big default group, correct?
> > 
> > Well, yes and no.
> > 
> > Yes, that's what the code currently does. But I did ask Mike (and he
> > delivered) to try to make the code look and work in a way where the
> > whole "tty thing" is just one of the heuristics.
> > 
> > It's not clear exactly what the non-tty heuristics would be, but I do
> > have a few suggestions:
> > 
> >  -  I think it might be a good idea to associate a task group with the
> > current "cred" of a process, and fall back on it in the absense of a
> > tty-provided one.
> > 
> Or how about (just brainstorming here) a group per 'process group'?

I switched to per session, which on my system at least looks like more
than enough granularity.

	-Mike

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