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authorJosh Don <joshdon@google.com>2023-11-30 16:52:03 -0800
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2023-12-01 06:49:32 -1000
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tree2cdc2da50fc90d0ea9a1fbb84eb3abc24e6577b3 /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
parent877c737db9355acaa1ec2fd2b8dbdaff82605df7 (diff)
cgroup: Fix documentation for cpu.idle
Two problems: - cpu.idle cgroups show up with 0 weight, correct the documentation to indicate this. - cpu.idle has no entry describing it. Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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@@ -1093,7 +1093,11 @@ All time durations are in microseconds.
A read-write single value file which exists on non-root
cgroups. The default is "100".
- The weight in the range [1, 10000].
+ For non idle groups (cpu.idle = 0), the weight is in the
+ range [1, 10000].
+
+ If the cgroup has been configured to be SCHED_IDLE (cpu.idle = 1),
+ then the weight will show as a 0.
cpu.weight.nice
A read-write single value file which exists on non-root
@@ -1157,6 +1161,16 @@ All time durations are in microseconds.
values similar to the sched_setattr(2). This maximum utilization
value is used to clamp the task specific maximum utilization clamp.
+ cpu.idle
+ A read-write single value file which exists on non-root cgroups.
+ The default is 0.
+
+ This is the cgroup analog of the per-task SCHED_IDLE sched policy.
+ Setting this value to a 1 will make the scheduling policy of the
+ cgroup SCHED_IDLE. The threads inside the cgroup will retain their
+ own relative priorities, but the cgroup itself will be treated as
+ very low priority relative to its peers.
+
Memory