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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-10-03 10:34:36 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-10-03 10:34:36 +0200 |
commit | b5259d944279d0b7e78a83849a352d8ba0447c4c (patch) | |
tree | 42f0e7dc404bc776f9a736c17f52c121da166fc1 /Documentation/cpusets.txt | |
parent | 1c50b728c3e734150b8a4a8310ce3e01bc5c70be (diff) | |
parent | 94aca1dac6f6d21f4b07e4864baf7768cabcc6e7 (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc8' into core/rcu
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diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt index 1f5a924d1e56..47e568a9370a 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpusets.txt @@ -635,14 +635,16 @@ prior 'mems' setting, will not be moved. There is an exception to the above. If hotplug functionality is used to remove all the CPUs that are currently assigned to a cpuset, -then the kernel will automatically update the cpus_allowed of all -tasks attached to CPUs in that cpuset to allow all CPUs. When memory -hotplug functionality for removing Memory Nodes is available, a -similar exception is expected to apply there as well. In general, -the kernel prefers to violate cpuset placement, over starving a task -that has had all its allowed CPUs or Memory Nodes taken offline. User -code should reconfigure cpusets to only refer to online CPUs and Memory -Nodes when using hotplug to add or remove such resources. +then all the tasks in that cpuset will be moved to the nearest ancestor +with non-empty cpus. But the moving of some (or all) tasks might fail if +cpuset is bound with another cgroup subsystem which has some restrictions +on task attaching. In this failing case, those tasks will stay +in the original cpuset, and the kernel will automatically update +their cpus_allowed to allow all online CPUs. When memory hotplug +functionality for removing Memory Nodes is available, a similar exception +is expected to apply there as well. In general, the kernel prefers to +violate cpuset placement, over starving a task that has had all +its allowed CPUs or Memory Nodes taken offline. There is a second exception to the above. GFP_ATOMIC requests are kernel internal allocations that must be satisfied, immediately. |