Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH] sched: automated per tty task groups

[Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>]

On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 10:48 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:11:55AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 04:56 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > > Mind doing more of the tty->desktop renames/generalizations as Linus suggested, and 
> > > resend the patch?
> > 
> > Here she comes.  Better/Worse?
> > 
> > Changes:
> > - tty->autogroup.
> > - only autogroup fair class tasks.
> > - removed dainbramaged sleeper vruntime twiddling.
> > - removed paranoid locking.
> > - removed noop detatch code.
> > 
> > > I'd also suggest to move it out of EXPERIMENTAL - we dont really do that for core 
> > > kernel features as most distros enable CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL so it's a rather 
> > > meaningless distinction. Since the feature is default-n, people will get the old 
> > > scheduler by default but can also choose this desktop-centric scheduling mode.
> > > 
> > > I'd even argue to make it default-y, because this patch clearly cures a form of 
> > > kbuild cancer.
> > 
> > You top dogs can make the default call.. it it's accepted that is ;-)
> > 
> > Marcus:  care to try the below?  Works fine for me (but so did first
> > cut).  It depends on the attached patch, and applied to virgin shiny new
> > 2.6.36.
> 
> Works fine interactively, but I still get the same kernel BUG on reboot
> time as before. Would a photo of the trace help you?

Odd.  Yeah, please send me the photo and your .config.

	-Mike