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sched: group scheduling, sysfs tunables

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Add tunables in sysfs to modify a user's cpu share.

A directory is created in sysfs for each new user in the system.

	/sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/cpu_share

Reading this file returns the cpu shares granted for the user.
Writing into this file modifies the cpu share for the user. Only an
administrator is allowed to modify a user's cpu share.

Ex:
	# cd /sys/kernel/uids/
	# cat 512/cpu_share
	1024
	# echo 2048 > 512/cpu_share
	# cat 512/cpu_share
	2048
	#

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Dhaval Giani
2007-10-15 17:00:14 +02:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
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@@ -117,3 +117,70 @@ Some implementation details:
iterators of the scheduling modules are used. The balancing code got
quite a bit simpler as a result.
Group scheduler extension to CFS
================================
Normally the scheduler operates on individual tasks and strives to provide
fair CPU time to each task. Sometimes, it may be desirable to group tasks
and provide fair CPU time to each such task group. For example, it may
be desirable to first provide fair CPU time to each user on the system
and then to each task belonging to a user.
CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED strives to achieve exactly that. It lets
SCHED_NORMAL/BATCH tasks be be grouped and divides CPU time fairly among such
groups. At present, there are two (mutually exclusive) mechanisms to group
tasks for CPU bandwidth control purpose:
- Based on user id (CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED)
In this option, tasks are grouped according to their user id.
- Based on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem (CONFIG_FAIR_CGROUP_SCHED)
This options lets the administrator create arbitrary groups
of tasks, using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem. See
Documentation/cgroups.txt for more information about this
filesystem.
Only one of these options to group tasks can be chosen and not both.
Group scheduler tunables:
When CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED is defined, a directory is created in sysfs for
each new user and a "cpu_share" file is added in that directory.
# cd /sys/kernel/uids
# cat 512/cpu_share # Display user 512's CPU share
1024
# echo 2048 > 512/cpu_share # Modify user 512's CPU share
# cat 512/cpu_share # Display user 512's CPU share
2048
#
CPU bandwidth between two users are divided in the ratio of their CPU shares.
For ex: if you would like user "root" to get twice the bandwidth of user
"guest", then set the cpu_share for both the users such that "root"'s
cpu_share is twice "guest"'s cpu_share
When CONFIG_FAIR_CGROUP_SCHED is defined, a "cpu.shares" file is created
for each group created using the pseudo filesystem. See example steps
below to create task groups and modify their CPU share using the "cgroups"
pseudo filesystem
# mkdir /dev/cpuctl
# mount -t cgroup -ocpu none /dev/cpuctl
# cd /dev/cpuctl
# mkdir multimedia # create "multimedia" group of tasks
# mkdir browser # create "browser" group of tasks
# #Configure the multimedia group to receive twice the CPU bandwidth
# #that of browser group
# echo 2048 > multimedia/cpu.shares
# echo 1024 > browser/cpu.shares
# firefox & # Launch firefox and move it to "browser" group
# echo <firefox_pid> > browser/tasks
# #Launch gmplayer (or your favourite movie player)
# echo <movie_player_pid> > multimedia/tasks