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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	maneesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Add sysfs control to modify a user's cpu share
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 12:12:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071001161221.GB23969@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071001140454.GA19439@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 07:34:54PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
 > Hi Ingo,
 > 
 > Adds tunables in sysfs to modify a user's cpu share.
 > 
 > A directory is created in sysfs for each new user in the system.
 > 
 > 	/sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/cpu_share
 > 
 > Reading this file returns the cpu shares granted for the user.
 > Writing into this file modifies the cpu share for the user. Only an 
 > administrator is allowed to modify a user's cpu share.
 > 
 > Ex: 
 > 	# cd /sys/kernel/uids/
 > 	# cat 512/cpu_share
 > 	1024
 > 	# echo 2048 > 512/cpu_share
 > 	# cat 512/cpu_share
 > 	2048
 > 	#

Can we start adding stuff to Documentation/ for new files created
in sysfs ?  There's so much undocumented stuff in there now that
it's unfunny.

A great start would be 'wtf is a cpu_share and why would I want to
change it' ?

	Dave

-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-01 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-24 21:45 [git] CFS-devel, latest code Ingo Molnar
2007-09-24 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-24 21:59   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-25  0:08 ` Daniel Walker
2007-09-25  6:45   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-25 15:17     ` Daniel Walker
2007-09-25  6:10 ` Mike Galbraith
2007-09-25  7:35   ` Mike Galbraith
2007-09-25  8:33     ` Mike Galbraith
2007-09-25  8:53       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-09-25  9:11         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-09-25  9:15           ` Mike Galbraith
2007-09-25  9:12         ` Mike Galbraith
2007-09-25  9:13       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-25  9:17         ` Mike Galbraith
2007-09-25  9:47           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-25 10:02             ` Mike Galbraith
2007-09-26  8:04             ` Mike Galbraith
2007-09-28 21:46             ` Bill Davidsen
2007-09-25  9:44         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-09-25  9:40           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-25 10:10             ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-25 10:28               ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-09-25 10:36                 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-25 11:33                   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-25 14:48                     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-09-25 12:51                   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-09-25 13:35                     ` Mike Galbraith
2007-09-25 14:07                       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-09-25 12:28                 ` Mike Galbraith
2007-09-25 12:54                   ` Mike Galbraith
     [not found]                     ` <20070925131717.GM26289@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
     [not found]                       ` <1190725693.13716.10.camel@Homer.simpson.net>
     [not found]                         ` <20070925132528.GN26289@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
     [not found]                           ` <1190726682.11260.1.camel@Homer.simpson.net>
     [not found]                             ` <20070925140559.GB26310@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
     [not found]                               ` <20070925143755.GA15594@elte.hu>
     [not found]                                 ` <20070926210737.GA8663@elte.hu>
2007-10-01 14:04                                   ` [RFC/PATCH] Add sysfs control to modify a user's cpu share Dhaval Giani
2007-10-01 14:44                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-01 15:32                                       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-10-02 22:12                                       ` Eric St-Laurent
2007-10-03  4:09                                         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-10-03 17:10                                       ` [RFC/PATCH -v2] " Dhaval Giani
2007-10-04  7:57                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-04  8:54                                           ` Heiko Carstens
2007-10-04 16:02                                             ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-04 17:20                                               ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-10-04 21:32                                             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-10-05  7:01                                               ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-10-09 15:12                                             ` [PATCH sched-devel] Generate uevents for user creation/destruction Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-10-10  7:42                                               ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-01 16:12                                     ` Dave Jones [this message]
2007-10-01 16:37                                       ` [RFC/PATCH] Add sysfs control to modify a user's cpu share Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-09-25  6:50 ` [git] CFS-devel, latest code S.Çağlar Onur
2007-09-25  9:17   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-25  7:41 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-25  8:43   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-09-25  8:48     ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-25 11:00     ` Ingo Molnar

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