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authorPaul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>2006-08-27 01:23:51 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-08-27 11:01:32 -0700
commit4c4d50f7b39cc58f1064b93a61ad617451ae41df (patch)
treed55ec85fd917472e9859a17e34f8114a7e87892b /Documentation/cpusets.txt
parent6394cca54894f6a9bcf927ab78d28985944298ff (diff)
[PATCH] cpuset: top_cpuset tracks hotplug changes to cpu_online_map
Change the list of cpus allowed to tasks in the top (root) cpuset to dynamically track what cpus are online, using a CPU hotplug notifier. Make this top cpus file read-only. On systems that have cpusets configured in their kernel, but that aren't actively using cpusets (for some distros, this covers the majority of systems) all tasks end up in the top cpuset. If that system does support CPU hotplug, then these tasks cannot make use of CPUs that are added after system boot, because the CPUs are not allowed in the top cpuset. This is a surprising regression over earlier kernels that didn't have cpusets enabled. In order to keep the behaviour of cpusets consistent between systems actively making use of them and systems not using them, this patch changes the behaviour of the 'cpus' file in the top (root) cpuset, making it read only, and making it automatically track the value of cpu_online_map. Thus tasks in the top cpuset will have automatic use of hot plugged CPUs allowed by their cpuset. Thanks to Anton Blanchard and Nathan Lynch for reporting this problem, driving the fix, and earlier versions of this patch. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@@ -217,6 +217,12 @@ exclusive cpuset. Also, the use of a Linux virtual file system (vfs)
to represent the cpuset hierarchy provides for a familiar permission
and name space for cpusets, with a minimum of additional kernel code.
+The cpus file in the root (top_cpuset) cpuset is read-only.
+It automatically tracks the value of cpu_online_map, using a CPU
+hotplug notifier. If and when memory nodes can be hotplugged,
+we expect to make the mems file in the root cpuset read-only
+as well, and have it track the value of node_online_map.
+
1.4 What are exclusive cpusets ?
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