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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/devices.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 2 |
4 files changed, 13 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt index 93feb8444489..f4f5ee97d4db 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ hierarchy, and a set of subsystems; each subsystem has system-specific state attached to each cgroup in the hierarchy. Each hierarchy has an instance of the cgroup virtual filesystem associated with it. -At any one time there may be multiple active hierachies of task +At any one time there may be multiple active hierarchies of task cgroups. Each hierarchy is a partition of all tasks in the system. User level code may create and destroy cgroups by name in an @@ -124,10 +124,10 @@ following lines: / \ Prof (15%) students (5%) -Browsers like firefox/lynx go into the WWW network class, while (k)nfsd go +Browsers like Firefox/Lynx go into the WWW network class, while (k)nfsd go into NFS network class. -At the same time firefox/lynx will share an appropriate CPU/Memory class +At the same time Firefox/Lynx will share an appropriate CPU/Memory class depending on who launched it (prof/student). With the ability to classify tasks differently for different resources @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ and then start a subshell 'sh' in that cgroup: Creating, modifying, using the cgroups can be done through the cgroup virtual filesystem. -To mount a cgroup hierarchy will all available subsystems, type: +To mount a cgroup hierarchy with all available subsystems, type: # mount -t cgroup xxx /dev/cgroup The "xxx" is not interpreted by the cgroup code, but will appear in @@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ always handled well. void post_clone(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp) (cgroup_mutex held by caller) -Called at the end of cgroup_clone() to do any paramater +Called at the end of cgroup_clone() to do any parameter initialization which might be required before a task could attach. For example in cpusets, no task may attach before 'cpus' and 'mems' are set up. diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt index 0611e9528c7c..f9ca389dddf4 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ Cpusets extends these two mechanisms as follows: - The hierarchy of cpusets can be mounted at /dev/cpuset, for browsing and manipulation from user space. - A cpuset may be marked exclusive, which ensures that no other - cpuset (except direct ancestors and descendents) may contain + cpuset (except direct ancestors and descendants) may contain any overlapping CPUs or Memory Nodes. - You can list all the tasks (by pid) attached to any cpuset. @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ nodes with memory--using the cpuset_track_online_nodes() hook. -------------------------------- If a cpuset is cpu or mem exclusive, no other cpuset, other than -a direct ancestor or descendent, may share any of the same CPUs or +a direct ancestor or descendant, may share any of the same CPUs or Memory Nodes. A cpuset that is mem_exclusive *or* mem_hardwall is "hardwalled", @@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ child cpusets have this flag enabled. When doing this, you don't usually want to leave any unpinned tasks in the top cpuset that might use non-trivial amounts of CPU, as such tasks may be artificially constrained to some subset of CPUs, depending on -the particulars of this flag setting in descendent cpusets. Even if +the particulars of this flag setting in descendant cpusets. Even if such a task could use spare CPU cycles in some other CPUs, the kernel scheduler might not consider the possibility of load balancing that task to that underused CPU. @@ -531,9 +531,9 @@ be idle. Of course it takes some searching cost to find movable tasks and/or idle CPUs, the scheduler might not search all CPUs in the domain -everytime. In fact, in some architectures, the searching ranges on +every time. In fact, in some architectures, the searching ranges on events are limited in the same socket or node where the CPU locates, -while the load balance on tick searchs all. +while the load balance on tick searches all. For example, assume CPU Z is relatively far from CPU X. Even if CPU Z is idle while CPU X and the siblings are busy, scheduler can't migrate @@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ its new cpuset, then the task will continue to use whatever subset of MPOL_BIND nodes are still allowed in the new cpuset. If the task was using MPOL_BIND and now none of its MPOL_BIND nodes are allowed in the new cpuset, then the task will be essentially treated as if it -was MPOL_BIND bound to the new cpuset (even though its numa placement, +was MPOL_BIND bound to the new cpuset (even though its NUMA placement, as queried by get_mempolicy(), doesn't change). If a task is moved from one cpuset to another, then the kernel will adjust the tasks memory placement, as above, the next time that the kernel attempts diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/devices.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/devices.txt index 7cc6e6a60672..57ca4c89fe5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/devices.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/devices.txt @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ suffice, but we can decide the best way to adequately restrict movement as people get some experience with this. We may just want to require CAP_SYS_ADMIN, which at least is a separate bit from CAP_MKNOD. We may want to just refuse moving to a cgroup which -isn't a descendent of the current one. Or we may want to use +isn't a descendant of the current one. Or we may want to use CAP_MAC_ADMIN, since we really are trying to lock down root. CAP_SYS_ADMIN is needed to modify the whitelist or move another diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index e1501964df1e..a98a7fe7aabb 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ will be charged as a new owner of it. unevictable - # of pages cannot be reclaimed.(mlocked etc) Below is depend on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM. - inactive_ratio - VM inernal parameter. (see mm/page_alloc.c) + inactive_ratio - VM internal parameter. (see mm/page_alloc.c) recent_rotated_anon - VM internal parameter. (see mm/vmscan.c) recent_rotated_file - VM internal parameter. (see mm/vmscan.c) recent_scanned_anon - VM internal parameter. (see mm/vmscan.c) |