[PATCH] sched: cpu accounting controller

Ingo Molnar mingo at elte.hu
Thu Nov 29 11:20:58 PST 2007


* Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Paul,
> 	Sorry about the delay in getting back to this thread. I realized
> very recently that cpuacct controller has been removed from Linus's tree
> and have attempted to rework it as per our discussions.
> 
> Linus/Ingo,
> 	Commit cfb5285660aad4931b2ebbfa902ea48a37dfffa1 removed a 
> usefull feature for us, which provided a cpu accounting resource 
> controller. This feature would be usefull if someone wants to group 
> tasks only for accounting purpose and doesnt really want to exercise 
> any control over their cpu consumption.

ok, this looks certainly doable for v2.6.24. I've added it to the 
scheduler fixes queue and will let it brew there for a few days and send 
it to Linus after that if everything goes fine - unless anyone objects. 
This is pre-existing, tested code so the risk is small.

	Ingo


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