Re:The fall of datacenter software
by bogomipz on Thursday August 25, 2022 @02:27PM
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The author states:
>"Existing hardware resource isolation is primitive and there are no hardware mechanisms for scheduling CPU cycles (interrupts are too clunky) or memory (likewise for page faults)."
Don't Linux cgroups and cpu shares handle exactly this? Or is acknowledging this and meant to be a critique of CFS and its uses throttling when there is contention?
>"Existing hardware resource isolation is primitive and there are no hardware mechanisms for scheduling CPU cycles (interrupts are too clunky) or memory (likewise for page faults)."
Don't Linux cgroups and cpu shares handle exactly this? Or is acknowledging this and meant to be a critique of CFS and its uses throttling when there is contention?