[Intel-gfx] [PATCH RFC 8/9] drm/i915: Allow default context priority to be set via cgroup parameter

[Chris Wilson]

Quoting Matt Roper (2018-01-20 01:51:40)
> GPU contexts are usually created with "normal" priority as a starting point and
> then may be adjusted from their either via explicit methods (context_set_param)
> or implicit methods (boosts/penalization due to runtime behavior).  Let's allow
> a system integrator to override this starting GPU priority for a group of
> processes by setting a parameter on the cgroup that these processes belong to.

You are still allowing a process to undo the cgroup by changing its
own priority. What you want I think is a priority-offset or somesuch.
-Chris