Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758826Ab0KPVTa (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:19:30 -0500 Received: from tango.0pointer.de ([85.214.72.216]:47412 "EHLO tango.0pointer.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757539Ab0KPVT3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:19:29 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:19:09 +0100 From: Lennart Poettering To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alan Cox , Dhaval Giani , Peter Zijlstra , Mike Galbraith , Vivek Goyal , Oleg Nesterov , Markus Trippelsdorf , Mathieu Desnoyers , Ingo Molnar , LKML , Balbir Singh Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH v3] sched: automated per tty task groups Message-ID: <20101116211909.GB16589@tango.0pointer.de> References: <1289916171.5169.117.camel@maggy.simson.net> <1289916683.2109.625.camel@laptop> <20101116170312.GA19327@tango.0pointer.de> <20101116181603.GC19327@tango.0pointer.de> <20101116202839.GC27235@tango.0pointer.de> <20101116205243.64e4a67a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Campaign-1: () ASCII Ribbon Campaign X-Campaign-2: / Against HTML Email & vCards - Against Microsoft Attachments User-Agent: Leviathan/19.8.0 [zh] (Cray 3; I; Solaris 4.711; Console) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1472 Lines: 33 On Tue, 16.11.10 13:08, Linus Torvalds (torvalds@linux-foundation.org) wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > >> Well, if I make behaviour like this default in systemd, then this means > >> there won't be user setup for this. Because the distros shipping systemd > >> will get this as default behaviour. > > > > And within the desktop where would you put this - in the window manager > > on the basis of top level windows or in the app startup ? > > Btw, I suspect either of these are reasonable. In fact, I don't think > it would be at all wrong to have the desktop launcher have an option > to "launch in a group" (although I think it would need to be named > better than that). Right now, when you create desktop launchers under > at least gnome, it allows you to specify a "type" for the application > ("Application" or "Application in Terminal"), and maybe there could be > a "CPU-bound application" choice that would set it in a CPU group of > its own. Or whatever. Well, my plan was actually to by default put everything into its own group, and then let users opt-out of that for specific processes, if the want to. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/