Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759217AbXIKPlQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:41:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751940AbXIKPlF (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:41:05 -0400 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:33798 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753023AbXIKPlE (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:41:04 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:21:19 +0530 From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Cedric Le Goater , Paul Menage , Dmitry Adamushko , Andrew Morton , ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org, Jan Engelhardt , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] Hookup group-scheduler with task container infrastructure Message-ID: <20070911155119.GE16222@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20070910171049.GA16048@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20070910172334.GB19100@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20070910102259.dc45a481.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070910174649.GA16222@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <6599ad830709101545s66fd338dob6932407db4e1002@mail.gmail.com> <46E641C1.8000808@fr.ibm.com> <20070911082243.9433c528.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070911082243.9433c528.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 761 Lines: 22 On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 08:22:43AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > That looks odd, like it's a filesystem. > What does cfs really mean? cfs = completely fair scheduler :) In this thread, we are talking of hooking the cfs cpu scheduler with the task-container framework in -mm tree, so that the scheduler can deal with groups of tasks rather than just tasks, while handling fairness of cpu allocation. I agree "cfs" control subsystem does look odd a bit here. "cpu" control subsystem seems better. -- Regards, vatsa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/