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| author | Paul Jackson | 2008-02-07 00:14:48 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2008-02-07 08:42:23 -0800 |
| commit | 8f5aa26c75b7722e80c0c5c5bb833d41865d7019 (patch) | |
| tree | 7f1b27938b2732a70b99a65e49e83f1a77ac6aa9 /Documentation | |
| parent | 73507f335f406ff31ceb97b39fa76eaee00f4f26 (diff) | |
cpusets: update_cpumask documentation fix
Update cpuset documentation to match the October 2007 "Fix cpusets
update_cpumask" changes that now apply changes to a cpusets 'cpus' allowed
mask immediately to the cpus_allowed of the tasks in that cpuset.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cpusets.txt | 23 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt index 141bef1c8599..43db6fe12814 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpusets.txt @@ -523,21 +523,14 @@ from one cpuset to another, then the kernel will adjust the tasks memory placement, as above, the next time that the kernel attempts to allocate a page of memory for that task. -If a cpuset has its CPUs modified, then each task using that -cpuset does _not_ change its behavior automatically. In order to -minimize the impact on the critical scheduling code in the kernel, -tasks will continue to use their prior CPU placement until they -are rebound to their cpuset, by rewriting their pid to the 'tasks' -file of their cpuset. If a task had been bound to some subset of its -cpuset using the sched_setaffinity() call, and if any of that subset -is still allowed in its new cpuset settings, then the task will be -restricted to the intersection of the CPUs it was allowed on before, -and its new cpuset CPU placement. If, on the other hand, there is -no overlap between a tasks prior placement and its new cpuset CPU -placement, then the task will be allowed to run on any CPU allowed -in its new cpuset. If a task is moved from one cpuset to another, -its CPU placement is updated in the same way as if the tasks pid is -rewritten to the 'tasks' file of its current cpuset. +If a cpuset has its 'cpus' modified, then each task in that cpuset +will have its allowed CPU placement changed immediately. Similarly, +if a tasks pid is written to a cpusets 'tasks' file, in either its +current cpuset or another cpuset, then its allowed CPU placement is +changed immediately. If such a task had been bound to some subset +of its cpuset using the sched_setaffinity() call, the task will be +allowed to run on any CPU allowed in its new cpuset, negating the +affect of the prior sched_setaffinity() call. In summary, the memory placement of a task whose cpuset is changed is updated by the kernel, on the next allocation of a page for that task, |