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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/00-INDEX | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/00-INDEX | 18 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/page_migration | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets | 5 |
7 files changed, 30 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX index 2a39aeba1464..d05737aaa84b 100644 --- a/Documentation/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX | |||
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ cachetlb.txt | |||
86 | - describes the cache/TLB flushing interfaces Linux uses. | 86 | - describes the cache/TLB flushing interfaces Linux uses. |
87 | cdrom/ | 87 | cdrom/ |
88 | - directory with information on the CD-ROM drivers that Linux has. | 88 | - directory with information on the CD-ROM drivers that Linux has. |
89 | cgroups/ | ||
90 | - cgroups features, including cpusets and memory controller. | ||
89 | connector/ | 91 | connector/ |
90 | - docs on the netlink based userspace<->kernel space communication mod. | 92 | - docs on the netlink based userspace<->kernel space communication mod. |
91 | console/ | 93 | console/ |
@@ -98,8 +100,6 @@ cpu-load.txt | |||
98 | - document describing how CPU load statistics are collected. | 100 | - document describing how CPU load statistics are collected. |
99 | cpuidle/ | 101 | cpuidle/ |
100 | - info on CPU_IDLE, CPU idle state management subsystem. | 102 | - info on CPU_IDLE, CPU idle state management subsystem. |
101 | cpusets.txt | ||
102 | - documents the cpusets feature; assign CPUs and Mem to a set of tasks. | ||
103 | cputopology.txt | 103 | cputopology.txt |
104 | - documentation on how CPU topology info is exported via sysfs. | 104 | - documentation on how CPU topology info is exported via sysfs. |
105 | cris/ | 105 | cris/ |
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/00-INDEX b/Documentation/cgroups/00-INDEX new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..3f58fa3d6d00 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/00-INDEX | |||
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ | |||
1 | 00-INDEX | ||
2 | - this file | ||
3 | cgroups.txt | ||
4 | - Control Groups definition, implementation details, examples and API. | ||
5 | cpuacct.txt | ||
6 | - CPU Accounting Controller; account CPU usage for groups of tasks. | ||
7 | cpusets.txt | ||
8 | - documents the cpusets feature; assign CPUs and Mem to a set of tasks. | ||
9 | devices.txt | ||
10 | - Device Whitelist Controller; description, interface and security. | ||
11 | freezer-subsystem.txt | ||
12 | - checkpointing; rationale to not use signals, interface. | ||
13 | memcg_test.txt | ||
14 | - Memory Resource Controller; implementation details. | ||
15 | memory.txt | ||
16 | - Memory Resource Controller; design, accounting, interface, testing. | ||
17 | resource_counter.txt | ||
18 | - Resource Counter API. | ||
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index be3bde51b564..755def2cb071 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |||
@@ -1593,7 +1593,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file | |||
1593 | nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. | 1593 | nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. |
1594 | 1594 | ||
1595 | noswapaccount [KNL] Disable accounting of swap in memory resource | 1595 | noswapaccount [KNL] Disable accounting of swap in memory resource |
1596 | controller. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt) | 1596 | controller. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) |
1597 | 1597 | ||
1598 | nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. | 1598 | nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. |
1599 | 1599 | ||
@@ -1932,7 +1932,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file | |||
1932 | 1932 | ||
1933 | relax_domain_level= | 1933 | relax_domain_level= |
1934 | [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. | 1934 | [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. |
1935 | See Documentation/cpusets.txt. | 1935 | See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt. |
1936 | 1936 | ||
1937 | reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area | 1937 | reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area |
1938 | 1938 | ||
diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt index 3ef339f491e0..5ba4d3fc625a 100644 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt | |||
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ This uses the /cgroup virtual file system and "/cgroup/<cgroup>/cpu.rt_runtime_u | |||
126 | to control the CPU time reserved for each control group instead. | 126 | to control the CPU time reserved for each control group instead. |
127 | 127 | ||
128 | For more information on working with control groups, you should read | 128 | For more information on working with control groups, you should read |
129 | Documentation/cgroups.txt as well. | 129 | Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt as well. |
130 | 130 | ||
131 | Group settings are checked against the following limits in order to keep the configuration | 131 | Group settings are checked against the following limits in order to keep the configuration |
132 | schedulable: | 132 | schedulable: |
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt index 6aaaeb38730c..be45dbb9d7f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt | |||
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ The current memory policy support was added to Linux 2.6 around May 2004. This | |||
8 | document attempts to describe the concepts and APIs of the 2.6 memory policy | 8 | document attempts to describe the concepts and APIs of the 2.6 memory policy |
9 | support. | 9 | support. |
10 | 10 | ||
11 | Memory policies should not be confused with cpusets (Documentation/cpusets.txt) | 11 | Memory policies should not be confused with cpusets |
12 | (Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt) | ||
12 | which is an administrative mechanism for restricting the nodes from which | 13 | which is an administrative mechanism for restricting the nodes from which |
13 | memory may be allocated by a set of processes. Memory policies are a | 14 | memory may be allocated by a set of processes. Memory policies are a |
14 | programming interface that a NUMA-aware application can take advantage of. When | 15 | programming interface that a NUMA-aware application can take advantage of. When |
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_migration b/Documentation/vm/page_migration index d5fdfd34bbaf..6513fe2d90b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/page_migration +++ b/Documentation/vm/page_migration | |||
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ locations. | |||
37 | 37 | ||
38 | Larger installations usually partition the system using cpusets into | 38 | Larger installations usually partition the system using cpusets into |
39 | sections of nodes. Paul Jackson has equipped cpusets with the ability to | 39 | sections of nodes. Paul Jackson has equipped cpusets with the ability to |
40 | move pages when a task is moved to another cpuset (See ../cpusets.txt). | 40 | move pages when a task is moved to another cpuset (See |
41 | Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt). | ||
41 | Cpusets allows the automation of process locality. If a task is moved to | 42 | Cpusets allows the automation of process locality. If a task is moved to |
42 | a new cpuset then also all its pages are moved with it so that the | 43 | a new cpuset then also all its pages are moved with it so that the |
43 | performance of the process does not sink dramatically. Also the pages | 44 | performance of the process does not sink dramatically. Also the pages |
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets index 33bb56655991..0f11d9becb0b 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets | |||
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ you can create fake NUMA nodes that represent contiguous chunks of memory and | |||
7 | assign them to cpusets and their attached tasks. This is a way of limiting the | 7 | assign them to cpusets and their attached tasks. This is a way of limiting the |
8 | amount of system memory that are available to a certain class of tasks. | 8 | amount of system memory that are available to a certain class of tasks. |
9 | 9 | ||
10 | For more information on the features of cpusets, see Documentation/cpusets.txt. | 10 | For more information on the features of cpusets, see |
11 | Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt. | ||
11 | There are a number of different configurations you can use for your needs. For | 12 | There are a number of different configurations you can use for your needs. For |
12 | more information on the numa=fake command line option and its various ways of | 13 | more information on the numa=fake command line option and its various ways of |
13 | configuring fake nodes, see Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt. | 14 | configuring fake nodes, see Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt. |
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ A machine may be split as follows with "numa=fake=4*512," as reported by dmesg: | |||
32 | On node 3 totalpages: 131072 | 33 | On node 3 totalpages: 131072 |
33 | 34 | ||
34 | Now following the instructions for mounting the cpusets filesystem from | 35 | Now following the instructions for mounting the cpusets filesystem from |
35 | Documentation/cpusets.txt, you can assign fake nodes (i.e. contiguous memory | 36 | Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt, you can assign fake nodes (i.e. contiguous memory |
36 | address spaces) to individual cpusets: | 37 | address spaces) to individual cpusets: |
37 | 38 | ||
38 | [root@xroads /]# mkdir exampleset | 39 | [root@xroads /]# mkdir exampleset |