* [PATCH] cpusets: fix and update Documentation
@ 2008-05-23 7:07 Miao Xie
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From: Miao Xie @ 2008-05-23 7:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux-Kernel; +Cc: Paul Jackson, Paul Menage
Make the doc consistent with current cpusets implementation.
---
Documentation/cpusets.txt | 9 ++++++---
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt
index fb7b361..d803c5c 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
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1.5.4.rc3
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* [PATCH] cpusets: fix and update Documentation
@ 2008-05-23 7:39 Miao Xie
2008-05-23 14:25 ` Paul Jackson
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From: Miao Xie @ 2008-05-23 7:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton, Linux-Kernel; +Cc: Paul Jackson, Paul Menage
Make the doc consistent with current cpusets implementation.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
Documentation/cpusets.txt | 9 ++++++---
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt
index fb7b361..d803c5c 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
--
1.5.4.rc3
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* Re: [PATCH] cpusets: fix and update Documentation
2008-05-23 7:39 [PATCH] cpusets: fix and update Documentation Miao Xie
@ 2008-05-23 14:25 ` Paul Jackson
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From: Paul Jackson @ 2008-05-23 14:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: miaox; +Cc: akpm, linux-kernel, menage
Miao wrote:
> Make the doc consistent with current cpusets implementation.
Good fixes - thanks.
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
> - - It can only be marked exclusive if its parent is.
> + - It can't be marked exclusive unless its parent is.
I read both versions of this sentence as meaning the same thing,
though I think your new version is easier to read - good.
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