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diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt index f2c0a6842930..b875d231ac74 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpusets.txt @@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ CONTENTS: ---------------------- Cpusets provide a mechanism for assigning a set of CPUs and Memory -Nodes to a set of tasks. +Nodes to a set of tasks. In this document "Memory Node" refers to +an on-line node that contains memory. Cpusets constrain the CPU and Memory placement of tasks to only the resources within a tasks current cpuset. They form a nested @@ -220,8 +221,8 @@ and name space for cpusets, with a minimum of additional kernel code. The cpus and mems files in the root (top_cpuset) cpuset are read-only. The cpus file automatically tracks the value of cpu_online_map using a CPU hotplug notifier, and the mems file -automatically tracks the value of node_online_map using the -cpuset_track_online_nodes() hook. +automatically tracks the value of node_states[N_MEMORY]--i.e., +nodes with memory--using the cpuset_track_online_nodes() hook. 1.4 What are exclusive cpusets ? |
