From 6a7d68e899b7f609708e7590784344f03640f774 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miao Xie Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:45:54 -0700 Subject: cpusets: fix and update Documentation Make the doc consistent with current cpusets implementation. Signed-off-by: Miao Xie Acked-by: Paul Jackson Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/cpusets.txt | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/cpusets.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt index fb7b361e6eea..d803c5c68ab5 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpusets.txt @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ using the sched_setaffinity, mbind and set_mempolicy system calls. The following rules apply to each cpuset: - Its CPUs and Memory Nodes must be a subset of its parents. - - It can only be marked exclusive if its parent is. + - It can't be marked exclusive unless its parent is. - If its cpu or memory is exclusive, they may not overlap any sibling. These rules, and the natural hierarchy of cpusets, enable efficient @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ is modified to perform an inline check for this PF_SPREAD_PAGE task flag, and if set, a call to a new routine cpuset_mem_spread_node() returns the node to prefer for the allocation. -Similarly, setting 'memory_spread_cache' turns on the flag +Similarly, setting 'memory_spread_slab' turns on the flag PF_SPREAD_SLAB, and appropriately marked slab caches will allocate pages from the node returned by cpuset_mem_spread_node(). @@ -709,7 +709,10 @@ Now you want to do something with this cpuset. In this directory you can find several files: # ls -cpus cpu_exclusive mems mem_exclusive mem_hardwall tasks +cpu_exclusive memory_migrate mems tasks +cpus memory_pressure notify_on_release +mem_exclusive memory_spread_page sched_load_balance +mem_hardwall memory_spread_slab sched_relax_domain_level Reading them will give you information about the state of this cpuset: the CPUs and Memory Nodes it can use, the processes that are using -- cgit v1.2.1 From 30e0e178193d4221abc9926b07a4c7661c7cc4a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Zefan Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 10:27:17 +0800 Subject: cpuset: limit the input of cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level We allow the inputs to be [-1 ... SD_LV_MAX), and return -EINVAL for inputs outside this range. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: Paul Menage Acked-by: Paul Jackson Acked-by: Hidetoshi Seto Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- Documentation/cpusets.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/cpusets.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt index d803c5c68ab5..353504de3084 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpusets.txt @@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ otherwise initial value -1 that indicates the cpuset has no request. 2 : search cores in a package. 3 : search cpus in a node [= system wide on non-NUMA system] ( 4 : search nodes in a chunk of node [on NUMA system] ) - ( 5~ : search system wide [on NUMA system]) + ( 5 : search system wide [on NUMA system] ) This file is per-cpuset and affect the sched domain where the cpuset belongs to. Therefore if the flag 'sched_load_balance' of a cpuset -- cgit v1.2.1 From 985ee7f224cca8a0d622b24ec399f364c63fc274 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Jackson Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:00:01 -0700 Subject: cpusets: document proc status cpus and mems allowed lists Provide a little documentation for the two new fields, Cpus_allowed_list and Mems_allowed_list, that were added to each /proc//status file a while back. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/cpusets.txt | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/cpusets.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt index 353504de3084..894b844153ea 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpusets.txt @@ -154,13 +154,15 @@ browsing and modifying the cpusets presently known to the kernel. No new system calls are added for cpusets - all support for querying and modifying cpusets is via this cpuset file system. -The /proc//status file for each task has two added lines, +The /proc//status file for each task has four added lines, displaying the tasks cpus_allowed (on which CPUs it may be scheduled) and mems_allowed (on which Memory Nodes it may obtain memory), -in the format seen in the following example: +in the two formats seen in the following example: Cpus_allowed: ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff + Cpus_allowed_list: 0-127 Mems_allowed: ffffffff,ffffffff + Mems_allowed_list: 0-63 Each cpuset is represented by a directory in the cgroup file system containing (on top of the standard cgroup files) the following -- cgit v1.2.1 From 46b6d94eb04a718730c73b83db889341aad0515e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Jackson Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:00:09 -0700 Subject: doc: document the relax_domain_level kernel boot argument Document the kernel boot parameter: relax_domain_level=. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson Cc: Michael Kerrisk Reviewed-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/cpusets.txt | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/cpusets.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt index 894b844153ea..1f5a924d1e56 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpusets.txt @@ -546,6 +546,9 @@ otherwise initial value -1 that indicates the cpuset has no request. ( 4 : search nodes in a chunk of node [on NUMA system] ) ( 5 : search system wide [on NUMA system] ) +The system default is architecture dependent. The system default +can be changed using the relax_domain_level= boot parameter. + This file is per-cpuset and affect the sched domain where the cpuset belongs to. Therefore if the flag 'sched_load_balance' of a cpuset is disabled, then 'sched_relax_domain_level' have no effect since -- cgit v1.2.1