From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>,
menage@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jh@sgi.com
Subject: [PATCH -v2] cpuset: hotplug documentation fix
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:12:09 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C0BFA9.2000200@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080904232958.6ac79ada.pj@sgi.com>
If all the cpus in a cpuset are offlined, the tasks in it will
be moved to the nearest ancestor with non-empty cpus.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
---
fixed a typo: s/binded/bound
--
Documentation/cpusets.txt | 18 ++++++++++--------
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt
index 1f5a924..47e568a 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 bound 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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-05 5:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-05 3:43 [PATCH] cpuset: hotplug documentation fix Li Zefan
2008-09-05 4:29 ` Paul Jackson
2008-09-05 5:08 ` Li Zefan
2008-09-05 5:18 ` Paul Jackson
2008-09-05 5:12 ` Li Zefan [this message]
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