control groups

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:49:49 -0400,
Havoc Pennington wrote:
> In the performance paper
> http://shorestreet.com/sites/shorestreet.com/files/dbus-perf-report-0.9.9.pdf
> there's discussion of scheduler issues where the bus only gets the
> same CPU slice as each individual dependent app, so in the aggregate
> the apps get way too much time and the bus way too little.

This is a basic problem throughly examined by the real-time scheduling
community.  Start looking at things like priority inheritance
(globally fairer) or priority ceiling (easier to implement).

Neal