diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup_subsys.h b/include/linux/cgroup_subsys.h
index 651ff0869b2db76225987be9455b0bed4a60888d..0b9bfbde81686cc1ef6854ce429672ef5b85855c 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup_subsys.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup_subsys.h
@@ -30,3 +30,9 @@ SUBSYS(ns)
 #endif
 
 /* */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_CGROUP_SCHED
+SUBSYS(cpu_cgroup)
+#endif
+
+/* */
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 0007d1b5e867bf105fbdc9f4262a9f3462bbe89f..541382d539add2184cadd8e58e1d73e92c4858fe 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -334,6 +334,16 @@ config FAIR_USER_SCHED
 	  This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping
 	  tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user.
 
+config FAIR_CGROUP_SCHED
+	bool "Control groups"
+ 	depends on CGROUPS
+ 	help
+	  This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups
+	  using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control
+	  the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group.
+	  Refer to Documentation/cgroups.txt for more information
+	  on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
+
 endchoice
 
 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 4071306e1088ac8652e71e36a5babc37385390d0..afe76ec2e7feffb1f7a070d3f433b2838dca378a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -155,10 +155,15 @@ struct rt_prio_array {
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
 
+#include <linux/cgroup.h>
+
 struct cfs_rq;
 
 /* task group related information */
 struct task_group {
+#ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_CGROUP_SCHED
+	struct cgroup_subsys_state css;
+#endif
 	/* schedulable entities of this group on each cpu */
 	struct sched_entity **se;
 	/* runqueue "owned" by this group on each cpu */
@@ -199,6 +204,9 @@ static inline struct task_group *task_group(struct task_struct *p)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED
 	tg = p->user->tg;
+#elif defined(CONFIG_FAIR_CGROUP_SCHED)
+	tg = container_of(task_subsys_state(p, cpu_cgroup_subsys_id),
+				struct task_group, css);
 #else
 	tg  = &init_task_group;
 #endif
@@ -7091,3 +7099,116 @@ unsigned long sched_group_shares(struct task_group *tg)
 }
 
 #endif	/* CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_CGROUP_SCHED
+
+/* return corresponding task_group object of a cgroup */
+static inline struct task_group *cgroup_tg(struct cgroup *cont)
+{
+	return container_of(cgroup_subsys_state(cont, cpu_cgroup_subsys_id),
+					 struct task_group, css);
+}
+
+static struct cgroup_subsys_state *
+cpu_cgroup_create(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cont)
+{
+	struct task_group *tg;
+
+	if (!cont->parent) {
+		/* This is early initialization for the top cgroup */
+		init_task_group.css.cgroup = cont;
+		return &init_task_group.css;
+	}
+
+	/* we support only 1-level deep hierarchical scheduler atm */
+	if (cont->parent->parent)
+		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
+	tg = sched_create_group();
+	if (IS_ERR(tg))
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+	/* Bind the cgroup to task_group object we just created */
+	tg->css.cgroup = cont;
+
+	return &tg->css;
+}
+
+static void cpu_cgroup_destroy(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
+					struct cgroup *cont)
+{
+	struct task_group *tg = cgroup_tg(cont);
+
+	sched_destroy_group(tg);
+}
+
+static int cpu_cgroup_can_attach(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
+			     struct cgroup *cont, struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	/* We don't support RT-tasks being in separate groups */
+	if (tsk->sched_class != &fair_sched_class)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void
+cpu_cgroup_attach(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cont,
+			struct cgroup *old_cont, struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	sched_move_task(tsk);
+}
+
+static ssize_t cpu_shares_write(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cftype,
+				struct file *file, const char __user *userbuf,
+				size_t nbytes, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	unsigned long shareval;
+	struct task_group *tg = cgroup_tg(cont);
+	char buffer[2*sizeof(unsigned long) + 1];
+	int rc;
+
+	if (nbytes > 2*sizeof(unsigned long))	/* safety check */
+		return -E2BIG;
+
+	if (copy_from_user(buffer, userbuf, nbytes))
+		return -EFAULT;
+
+	buffer[nbytes] = 0;	/* nul-terminate */
+	shareval = simple_strtoul(buffer, NULL, 10);
+
+	rc = sched_group_set_shares(tg, shareval);
+
+	return (rc < 0 ? rc : nbytes);
+}
+
+static u64 cpu_shares_read_uint(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft)
+{
+	struct task_group *tg = cgroup_tg(cont);
+
+	return (u64) tg->shares;
+}
+
+static struct cftype cpu_shares = {
+	.name = "shares",
+	.read_uint = cpu_shares_read_uint,
+	.write = cpu_shares_write,
+};
+
+static int cpu_cgroup_populate(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cont)
+{
+	return cgroup_add_file(cont, ss, &cpu_shares);
+}
+
+struct cgroup_subsys cpu_cgroup_subsys = {
+	.name 	    	= "cpu",
+	.create	    	= cpu_cgroup_create,
+	.destroy    	= cpu_cgroup_destroy,
+	.can_attach 	= cpu_cgroup_can_attach,
+	.attach     	= cpu_cgroup_attach,
+	.populate   	= cpu_cgroup_populate,
+	.subsys_id  	= cpu_cgroup_subsys_id,
+	.early_init	= 1,
+};
+
+#endif	/* CONFIG_FAIR_CGROUP_SCHED */