From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760111AbYG1Qum (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:50:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751805AbYG1Qre (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:47:34 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.33.17]:40916 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759279AbYG1Qrd (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:47:33 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to: mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding: content-disposition:references; b=BDCtR/2UODfU1G59PG0GbEcriJlQCAMTTA7Li8dBSjVhg+m5P0Xj8y1TsuR3e9xh8 NdYg5Fv/5Qax950aB2AXQ== Message-ID: <6599ad830807280947j21fda44ajd51ce1dd523d9472@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:47:26 -0700 From: "Paul Menage" To: "Bill Davidsen" Subject: Re: How to disable group scheduler correctly? Cc: luis6674@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <488D03A9.4020103@tmr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <842240.12654.qm@web53310.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <488D03A9.4020103@tmr.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Would be nice to have a clean way to do this at runtime, so you could run a > distribution kernel and just avoid the group part of the scheduling. If the cgroups scheduler is enabled but you don't actually create any cpu scheduler cgroups, then you're just scheduling across a single group that contains all processes/threads. Is that distinguishable from not having group scheduling at all? Paul