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Re: RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature

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Hi Mike,

On 11/23/2016 04:33 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-11-23 at 14:54 +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> Hi Mike,

[...]

>> 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.  Autogroup is for
> those who don't want to have to care (which is also why it should have
> never grown nice knob).

Actually, the more I think about this, the more I think we *do*
need a few details on group scheduling. Otherwise, it's difficult
to explain to the use why nice(1) no longer works as traditionally
expected.

Here's my attempt to define the root task group:

       *  If autogrouping is disabled, then all processes in the root CPU
          cgroup form a scheduling group (sometimes called the "root task
          group").

Can you improve on this?

Cheers,

Michael

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Michael Kerrisk
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Re: RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-11-27 22:20 +0100
  Re: RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> - 2016-11-28 02:50 +0100
    Re: RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 10:20 +0100
      Re: RFC: documentation of the autogroup feature Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> - 2016-11-29 14:50 +0100

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