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On 11/21/19 10:33 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 18.11.19 21:34, Prakash Sangappa wrote:
>
>> It is more the latter. Admin should be able to explicitly decide that  container A
>> workload is to be given priority over other containers.
> I guess, you're talking about the host's admin, correct ?

Yes, Specifically host's admin decides which container gets the 
privilege to increase priority of processes inside that container.

>
> Shouldn't this already be possibly by tweaking the container's cgroups ?

Don't think so. The use case is that admin/user inside the container 
needs to be able to increase the priority of some the critical processes 
running in the container.

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>
> --mtx
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