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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-09-22 13:08:57 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-09-22 13:08:57 +0200 |
commit | 0b88641f1bafdbd087d5e63987a30cc0eadd63b9 (patch) | |
tree | 81dcf756db373444140bb2623584710c628e3048 /Documentation/cpusets.txt | |
parent | fbdbf709938d155c719c76b9894d28342632c797 (diff) | |
parent | 72d31053f62c4bc464c2783974926969614a8649 (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc7' into x86/debug
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diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt index 1f5a924d1e5..47e568a9370 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpusets.txt @@ -635,14 +635,16 @@ prior 'mems' setting, will not be moved. There is an exception to the above. If hotplug functionality is used to remove all the CPUs that are currently assigned to a cpuset, -then the kernel will automatically update the cpus_allowed of all -tasks attached to CPUs in that cpuset to allow all CPUs. When memory -hotplug functionality for removing Memory Nodes is available, a -similar exception is expected to apply there as well. In general, -the kernel prefers to violate cpuset placement, over starving a task -that has had all its allowed CPUs or Memory Nodes taken offline. User -code should reconfigure cpusets to only refer to online CPUs and Memory -Nodes when using hotplug to add or remove such resources. +then all the tasks in that cpuset will be moved to the nearest ancestor +with non-empty cpus. But the moving of some (or all) tasks might fail if +cpuset is bound with another cgroup subsystem which has some restrictions +on task attaching. In this failing case, those tasks will stay +in the original cpuset, and the kernel will automatically update +their cpus_allowed to allow all online CPUs. When memory hotplug +functionality for removing Memory Nodes is available, a similar exception +is expected to apply there as well. In general, the kernel prefers to +violate cpuset placement, over starving a task that has had all +its allowed CPUs or Memory Nodes taken offline. There is a second exception to the above. GFP_ATOMIC requests are kernel internal allocations that must be satisfied, immediately. |