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Re: RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature

From Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature
Date 2016-11-23 18:20 +0100
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On Wed, 2016-11-23 at 17:04 +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:

> > > In what circumstances does a process get moved back to the root 
> > > task group?
> > 
> > Userspace actions, tool or human fingers.
> 
> Could you say a little more please. What Kernel-user-space 
> APIs/system calls/etc. cause this to happen?

Well, the system call would be write(), scribbling in the cgroups vfs
interface.. not all that helpful without ever more technical detail.

> > > Actually, can you define for me what the root task group is, and 
> > > why it exists? That may be worth some words in this man page.
> > 
> > I don't think we need group scheduling details, there's plenty of
> > documentation elsewhere for those who want theory.  
> 
> Well, you suggested above 
> 
>     Perhaps mention that moving a task back to the root task
>     group will result in the autogroup again taking effect.

Dang, evolution doesn't have an unsend button :)

	-Mike

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RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-11-22 17:20 +0100
  [patch] sched/autogroup: Fix 64bit kernel nice adjustment Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> - 2016-11-23 11:40 +0100
    Re: [patch] sched/autogroup: Fix 64bit kernel nice adjustment "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-11-23 14:50 +0100
      Re: [patch] sched/autogroup: Fix 64bit kernel nice adjustment Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> - 2016-11-23 15:20 +0100
        Re: [patch] sched/autogroup: Fix 64bit kernel nice adjustment "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-11-23 15:30 +0100
          Re: [patch] sched/autogroup: Fix 64bit kernel nice adjustment Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> - 2016-11-23 17:00 +0100
    [tip:sched/urgent] sched/autogroup: Fix 64-bit kernel nice level  adjustment tip-bot for Mike Galbraith <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-11-24 07:30 +0100
  Re: RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> - 2016-11-23 12:50 +0100
    Re: RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-11-23 15:00 +0100
      Re: RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> - 2016-11-23 16:40 +0100
        Re: RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-11-23 17:10 +0100
          Re: RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> - 2016-11-23 18:20 +0100
            Re: RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-11-23 23:50 +0100
        Re: RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-11-23 17:10 +0100
          Re: RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> - 2016-11-23 18:20 +0100
            RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature [v2] "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-11-24 22:50 +0100

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