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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-06-14 05:52:39 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-06-14 05:52:39 +0200 |
| commit | 4ae127d1b6c71f9240dd4245f240e6dd8fc98014 (patch) | |
| tree | b7aa27b3e0c655f4613fe2146cb57d7f69e421f6 /Documentation/cpusets.txt | |
| parent | udp: reorder udp_iter_state to remove padding on 64bit builds (diff) | |
| parent | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/smc911x.c
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt index fb7b361e6eea..d803c5c68ab5 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpusets.txt @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ using the sched_setaffinity, mbind and set_mempolicy system calls. The following rules apply to each cpuset: - Its CPUs and Memory Nodes must be a subset of its parents. - - It can only be marked exclusive if its parent is. + - It can't be marked exclusive unless its parent is. - If its cpu or memory is exclusive, they may not overlap any sibling. These rules, and the natural hierarchy of cpusets, enable efficient @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ is modified to perform an inline check for this PF_SPREAD_PAGE task flag, and if set, a call to a new routine cpuset_mem_spread_node() returns the node to prefer for the allocation. -Similarly, setting 'memory_spread_cache' turns on the flag +Similarly, setting 'memory_spread_slab' turns on the flag PF_SPREAD_SLAB, and appropriately marked slab caches will allocate pages from the node returned by cpuset_mem_spread_node(). @@ -709,7 +709,10 @@ Now you want to do something with this cpuset. In this directory you can find several files: # ls -cpus cpu_exclusive mems mem_exclusive mem_hardwall tasks +cpu_exclusive memory_migrate mems tasks +cpus memory_pressure notify_on_release +mem_exclusive memory_spread_page sched_load_balance +mem_hardwall memory_spread_slab sched_relax_domain_level Reading them will give you information about the state of this cpuset: the CPUs and Memory Nodes it can use, the processes that are using |