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From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>, Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] cpuset: hotplug documentation fix
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:43:52 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C0AAF8.605@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)

If all the cpus/mems in a cpuset are offlined, the tasks in it will
be moved to the nearest ancestor with non-empty cpus/mems.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
 Documentation/cpusets.txt |   18 ++++++++++--------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt
index 1f5a924..871c1dd 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 binded 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.
-- 
1.5.4.rc3


             reply	other threads:[~2008-09-05  3:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-05  3:43 Li Zefan [this message]
2008-09-05  4:29 ` [PATCH] cpuset: hotplug documentation fix Paul Jackson
2008-09-05  5:08   ` Li Zefan
2008-09-05  5:18     ` Paul Jackson
2008-09-05  5:12   ` [PATCH -v2] " Li Zefan

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