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I am running a 2.6.37 kernel with sched_autogroup_enabled set to 1. I am not certain that I am seeing the benefits of this patch since:

  • I am launching my applications from the desktop;
  • applications launched from the desktop share the same tty;
  • applications with the same tty do not benefit from the mentioned kernel feature.

How can I select some applications which should be on a different tty from the rest?

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This demo should give you an idea on the improvement: sched_autogroup_enabled = 0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk70SeGA7pg

sched_autogroup_enabled = 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prxInRdaNfc

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    It is not a magic performance improving patch. As you see here in this comment by Lennart Poettering: "So, this patch only has an effect of people who build kernels from an xterm with make -j all day, and at the same time want to watch a movie, from a player they also start from a terminal, but from another one." Source: marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128993935321081&w=2 Commented Jun 4, 2012 at 9:08
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At the moment it is probably more useful for a power user to create their own task groups. Or you could try setting custom rules for ulatencyd. I would probably disable the autogroup patch in either case so it does not conflict with the manual cgroups.

Ulatencyd FAQ: https://github.com/poelzi/ulatencyd/wiki/Faq
Cgroups Documentation: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/cgroups.txt

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