Patch: cpu utilization monitor.

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Thu Mar 18 04:36:23 EST 2004


On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 09:32:16AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 09:27, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 05:38:06PM -0600, ahuja at austin.ibm.com wrote:
> > > This patch adds the framework required by performace team and on demand
> > > computing. At this point only the important bits/framework are covered.
> >
> > Is this what the ckrm people need?  If not, that is what the kernel is
> > going to be supporting soon, so I would suggest you look into their
> > solution.
>
> What are the CKRM people doing?  Scheduling classes based on usage of
> certain performance counters?

They are doing "resource management" type stuff for almost everything in
the kernel, including scheduling and performance monitoring.  See their
documentation for more details, but it sounds like it is exactly what
this author is looking for.

thanks,

greg k-h

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