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cpusets: update_cpumask documentation fix
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cpusets-update_cpumask-documentation-fix.patch
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Subject: cpusets: update_cpumask documentation fix
From: Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Cliff Wickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Documentation/cpusets.txt | 23 ++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff -puN Documentation/cpusets.txt~cpusets-update_cpumask-documentation-fix
Documentation/cpusets.txt
--- a/Documentation/cpusets.txt~cpusets-update_cpumask-documentation-fix
+++ a/Documentation/cpusets.txt
@@ -523,21 +523,14 @@ from one cpuset to another, then the ker
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,
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are
origin.patch
email-clientstxt-sylpheed-is-ok-at-imap.patch
kernel-cgroupc-remove-dead-code.patch
cgroup-brace-coding-style-fix.patch
cgroup-simplify-space-stripping.patch
cgroup-simplify-space-stripping-fix.patch
cgroups-move-cgroups-destroy-callbacks-to-cgroup_diput.patch
cgroups-mechanism-to-process-each-task-in-a-cgroup.patch
cgroups-mechanism-to-process-each-task-in-a-cgroup-cleanup.patch
cgroups-mechanism-to-process-each-task-in-a-cgroup-checkpatch-fixes.patch
hotplug-cpu-move-tasks-in-empty-cpusets-to-parent.patch
hotplug-cpu-move-tasks-in-empty-cpusets-to-parent-checkpatch-fixes.patch
hotplug-cpu-move-tasks-in-empty-cpusets-to-parent-node_online_map-fix.patch
cpusets-update_cpumask-revision.patch
cpusets-update_cpumask-revision-fix.patch
cpusets-update_cpumask-revision-checkpatch-fixes.patch
cgroups-update-comments-in-cpusetc.patch
hotplug-cpu-move-tasks-in-empty-cpusets-to-parent-various-other-fixes.patch
cpusets-update_cpumask-documentation-fix.patch
proc-seqfile-convert-proc_pid_status-to-properly-handle-pid-namespaces.patch
proc-seqfile-convert-proc_pid_status-to-properly-handle-pid-namespaces-checkpatch-fixes.patch
proc-seqfile-convert-proc_pid_status-to-properly-handle-pid-namespaces-nommu-fix.patch
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