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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cgroups')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt | 12 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt | 17 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 5 |
3 files changed, 24 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt index 44b8b7af8019..cbdfb7d9455b 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt @@ -349,6 +349,10 @@ To mount a cgroup hierarchy with all available subsystems, type: The "xxx" is not interpreted by the cgroup code, but will appear in /proc/mounts so may be any useful identifying string that you like. +Note: Some subsystems do not work without some user input first. For instance, +if cpusets are enabled the user will have to populate the cpus and mems files +for each new cgroup created before that group can be used. + To mount a cgroup hierarchy with just the cpuset and memory subsystems, type: # mount -t cgroup -o cpuset,memory hier1 /dev/cgroup @@ -426,6 +430,14 @@ You can attach the current shell task by echoing 0: # echo 0 > tasks +Note: Since every task is always a member of exactly one cgroup in each +mounted hierarchy, to remove a task from its current cgroup you must +move it into a new cgroup (possibly the root cgroup) by writing to the +new cgroup's tasks file. + +Note: If the ns cgroup is active, moving a process to another cgroup can +fail. + 2.3 Mounting hierarchies by name -------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt index 5d0d5692a365..98a30829af7a 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt @@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ There are ways to query or modify cpusets: - via the C library libcgroup. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libcg/) - via the python application cset. - (http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Cpuset) + (http://code.google.com/p/cpuset/) The sched_setaffinity calls can also be done at the shell prompt using SGI's runon or Robert Love's taskset. The mbind and set_mempolicy @@ -725,13 +725,14 @@ Now you want to do something with this cpuset. In this directory you can find several files: # ls -cpuset.cpu_exclusive cpuset.memory_spread_slab -cpuset.cpus cpuset.mems -cpuset.mem_exclusive cpuset.sched_load_balance -cpuset.mem_hardwall cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level -cpuset.memory_migrate notify_on_release -cpuset.memory_pressure tasks -cpuset.memory_spread_page +cgroup.clone_children cpuset.memory_pressure +cgroup.event_control cpuset.memory_spread_page +cgroup.procs cpuset.memory_spread_slab +cpuset.cpu_exclusive cpuset.mems +cpuset.cpus cpuset.sched_load_balance +cpuset.mem_exclusive cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level +cpuset.mem_hardwall notify_on_release +cpuset.memory_migrate tasks 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 diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index 7781857dc940..b6ed61c95856 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -485,8 +485,9 @@ The feature can be disabled by # echo 0 > memory.use_hierarchy -NOTE1: Enabling/disabling will fail if the cgroup already has other - cgroups created below it. +NOTE1: Enabling/disabling will fail if either the cgroup already has other + cgroups created below it, or if the parent cgroup has use_hierarchy + enabled. NOTE2: When panic_on_oom is set to "2", the whole system will panic in case of an OOM event in any cgroup. |