Re: [PATCH 3/9] Include nice values in cpuacct

[Glauber Costa]

On 09/19/2011 03:36 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 13:26 -0300, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > On 09/19/2011 01:19 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 17:04 -0300, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > > > Besides user and system.
> > >
> > >
> > > Why!?
> > Because this is the whole purpose of this series. Think that in a
> > reasonable use case, each cgroup will be tied to a container system.
> > Each of them wants to have its own statistics, in /proc/stat. The best
> > way I thought of doing it was to piggyback into cpuacct, instead of
> > coming up with a 124th accounting mechanism just for that.
> >
> > I also used it do demonstrate how can we easily implement a new feature
> > found in hypervisors out of it, but this is really just the cherry on top.
>
>
> OK, but then amend the changelog with something like:
>
> Since we want to provide a full /proc/stat equivalent for cgroups, also
> implement nice time.
Fair request.

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