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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst index 86a6ae995d54..c7909e5ac136 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +.. _cpusets: + ======= CPUSETS ======= @@ -8,7 +10,7 @@ Written by Simon.Derr@bull.net - Portions Copyright (c) 2004-2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc. - Modified by Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> -- Modified by Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> +- Modified by Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org> - Modified by Paul Menage <menage@google.com> - Modified by Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> @@ -177,7 +179,7 @@ files describing that cpuset: - cpuset.mem_hardwall flag: is memory allocation hardwalled - cpuset.memory_pressure: measure of how much paging pressure in cpuset - cpuset.memory_spread_page flag: if set, spread page cache evenly on allowed nodes - - cpuset.memory_spread_slab flag: if set, spread slab cache evenly on allowed nodes + - cpuset.memory_spread_slab flag: OBSOLETE. Doesn't have any function. - cpuset.sched_load_balance flag: if set, load balance within CPUs on that cpuset - cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level: the searching range when migrating tasks @@ -223,6 +225,17 @@ cpu_online_mask using a CPU hotplug notifier, and the mems file automatically tracks the value of node_states[N_MEMORY]--i.e., nodes with memory--using the cpuset_track_online_nodes() hook. +The cpuset.effective_cpus and cpuset.effective_mems files are +normally read-only copies of cpuset.cpus and cpuset.mems files +respectively. If the cpuset cgroup filesystem is mounted with the +special "cpuset_v2_mode" option, the behavior of these files will become +similar to the corresponding files in cpuset v2. In other words, hotplug +events will not change cpuset.cpus and cpuset.mems. Those events will +only affect cpuset.effective_cpus and cpuset.effective_mems which show +the actual cpus and memory nodes that are currently used by this cpuset. +See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst for more information about +cpuset v2 behavior. + 1.4 What are exclusive cpusets ? -------------------------------- @@ -555,7 +568,7 @@ on the next tick. For some applications in special situation, waiting The 'cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level' file allows you to request changing this searching range as you like. This file takes int value which -indicates size of searching range in levels ideally as follows, +indicates size of searching range in levels approximately as follows, otherwise initial value -1 that indicates the cpuset has no request. ====== =========================================================== @@ -568,6 +581,11 @@ otherwise initial value -1 that indicates the cpuset has no request. 5 search system wide [on NUMA system] ====== =========================================================== +Not all levels can be present and values can change depending on the +system architecture and kernel configuration. Check +/sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu*/domain*/ for system-specific +details. + The system default is architecture dependent. The system default can be changed using the relax_domain_level= boot parameter. @@ -706,7 +724,7 @@ There are ways to query or modify cpusets: cat, rmdir commands from the shell, or their equivalent from C. - via the C library libcpuset. - via the C library libcgroup. - (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libcg/) + (https://github.com/libcgroup/libcgroup/) - via the python application cset. (http://code.google.com/p/cpuset/) |