Well it’s nothing if not interesting. The ~200 line “miracle” patch promises a huge improvement in desktop responsiveness, but Lennart Poettering (from Red Hat) has replied to Linus’ praising comments with 4 lines of bash which out-perform it, on the current vanilla kernel. (And by the way, Lennart seems to agree with Con Kolivas about this patch, in that make -j is not a valid desktop use case.)
Lennart said:
Binding something like this to TTYs is just backwards. No graphical
session has a TTY attached anymore. And there might be multiple TTYs
used in the same session.
I really wonder why logic like this should live in kernel space at all,
since a) the kernel has no real notion of a session, except audit and b)
this is policy and as soon as people have this kind of group then they
probably want other kind of autogrouping as well for the other
controllers, which hence means userspace is a better, and configurable
place for this.
To which Linus then replied:
Numbers talk, bullshit walks.
Read more: the blog of Chris
Lennart said:
Binding something like this to TTYs is just backwards. No graphical
session has a TTY attached anymore. And there might be multiple TTYs
used in the same session.
I really wonder why logic like this should live in kernel space at all,
since a) the kernel has no real notion of a session, except audit and b)
this is policy and as soon as people have this kind of group then they
probably want other kind of autogrouping as well for the other
controllers, which hence means userspace is a better, and configurable
place for this.
To which Linus then replied:
Numbers talk, bullshit walks.
Read more: the blog of Chris