Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified hierarchy

From	Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified hierarchy
Date	2015-10-25 11:50 +0100
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On 10/25/2015 11:41 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 10:33:32AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> Hm, that's weird - all our sched_*() system call APIs that set task scheduling 
>> priorities are fundamentally per thread, not per process. Same goes for the old 
>> sys_nice() interface. The scheduler has no real notion of 'process', and certainly 
>> not at the system call level.
>>
> 
> I suspect the main issue is that the games programmers were trying to
> access it via libc / pthreads, which hides a lot of the power
> available at the raw syscall level.  This is probably more of a
> "tutorial needed for userspace programmers" issue, at a guess.

If this refers to the lack of exposure of thread IDs in glibc, we are
willing to change that on glibc side.  The discussion has progressed to
the point where it is now about the question whether it should be part
of the GNU API (like sched_setaffinity), or live in glibc as a
Linux-specific extension (like sched_getcpu).  More input is certainly
welcome.

Old concerns about support for n:m threading implementations in glibc
are no longer relevant because too much code using well-documented
interfaces would break.

Florian

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Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified  hierarchy Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-10-24 00:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified  hierarchy Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> - 2015-10-24 06:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified  hierarchy Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-10-25 03:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified  hierarchy Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> - 2015-10-25 04:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified  hierarchy Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-10-27 04:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified  hierarchy Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> - 2015-10-27 06:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified  hierarchy Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-10-27 06:50 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified  hierarchy Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> - 2015-10-27 07:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified  hierarchy Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-10-27 07:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified  hierarchy Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> - 2015-10-27 07:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified hierarchy Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-10-25 05:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified  hierarchy Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-10-25 10:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified  hierarchy Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2015-10-25 11:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified  hierarchy Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> - 2015-10-25 11:50 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified  hierarchy Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2015-10-25 13:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified  hierarchy Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> - 2015-10-25 14:20 +0100
                Getrandom wrapper Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2015-10-25 14:50 +0100
                Re: Getrandom wrapper Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> - 2015-10-26 14:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement interface for cgroup unified  hierarchy Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-10-26 15:20 +0100

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