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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 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/cgroup.h | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 2 |
9 files changed, 35 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX index 2a39aeba146..d05737aaa84 100644 --- a/Documentation/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX @@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ cachetlb.txt - describes the cache/TLB flushing interfaces Linux uses. cdrom/ - directory with information on the CD-ROM drivers that Linux has. +cgroups/ + - cgroups features, including cpusets and memory controller. connector/ - docs on the netlink based userspace<->kernel space communication mod. console/ @@ -98,8 +100,6 @@ cpu-load.txt - document describing how CPU load statistics are collected. cpuidle/ - info on CPU_IDLE, CPU idle state management subsystem. -cpusets.txt - - documents the cpusets feature; assign CPUs and Mem to a set of tasks. cputopology.txt - documentation on how CPU topology info is exported via sysfs. cris/ diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/00-INDEX b/Documentation/cgroups/00-INDEX new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..3f58fa3d6d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/00-INDEX @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +00-INDEX + - this file +cgroups.txt + - Control Groups definition, implementation details, examples and API. +cpuacct.txt + - CPU Accounting Controller; account CPU usage for groups of tasks. +cpusets.txt + - documents the cpusets feature; assign CPUs and Mem to a set of tasks. +devices.txt + - Device Whitelist Controller; description, interface and security. +freezer-subsystem.txt + - checkpointing; rationale to not use signals, interface. +memcg_test.txt + - Memory Resource Controller; implementation details. +memory.txt + - Memory Resource Controller; design, accounting, interface, testing. +resource_counter.txt + - Resource Counter API. diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index be3bde51b56..755def2cb07 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 nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. noswapaccount [KNL] Disable accounting of swap in memory resource - controller. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt) + controller. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) nosync [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. @@ -1932,7 +1932,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file relax_domain_level= [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. - See Documentation/cpusets.txt. + See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt. reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt index 3ef339f491e..5ba4d3fc625 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 to control the CPU time reserved for each control group instead. For more information on working with control groups, you should read -Documentation/cgroups.txt as well. +Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt as well. Group settings are checked against the following limits in order to keep the configuration schedulable: diff --git a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt index 6aaaeb38730..be45dbb9d7f 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 document attempts to describe the concepts and APIs of the 2.6 memory policy support. -Memory policies should not be confused with cpusets (Documentation/cpusets.txt) +Memory policies should not be confused with cpusets +(Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt) which is an administrative mechanism for restricting the nodes from which memory may be allocated by a set of processes. Memory policies are a 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 d5fdfd34bba..6513fe2d90b 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/page_migration +++ b/Documentation/vm/page_migration @@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ locations. Larger installations usually partition the system using cpusets into sections of nodes. Paul Jackson has equipped cpusets with the ability to -move pages when a task is moved to another cpuset (See ../cpusets.txt). +move pages when a task is moved to another cpuset (See +Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt). Cpusets allows the automation of process locality. If a task is moved to a new cpuset then also all its pages are moved with it so that the 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 33bb5665599..0f11d9becb0 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 assign them to cpusets and their attached tasks. This is a way of limiting the amount of system memory that are available to a certain class of tasks. -For more information on the features of cpusets, see Documentation/cpusets.txt. +For more information on the features of cpusets, see +Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt. There are a number of different configurations you can use for your needs. For more information on the numa=fake command line option and its various ways of 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: On node 3 totalpages: 131072 Now following the instructions for mounting the cpusets filesystem from -Documentation/cpusets.txt, you can assign fake nodes (i.e. contiguous memory +Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt, you can assign fake nodes (i.e. contiguous memory address spaces) to individual cpusets: [root@xroads /]# mkdir exampleset diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h index 499900d0cee..b837631fe49 100644 --- a/include/linux/cgroup.h +++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h @@ -342,7 +342,10 @@ int cgroup_task_count(const struct cgroup *cgrp); /* Return true if the cgroup is a descendant of the current cgroup */ int cgroup_is_descendant(const struct cgroup *cgrp); -/* Control Group subsystem type. See Documentation/cgroups.txt for details */ +/* + * Control Group subsystem type. + * See Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for details + */ struct cgroup_subsys { struct cgroup_subsys_state *(*create)(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index bcffc0e4764..99eb4196bd0 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR select MM_OWNER help Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous - memory and page cache. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt) + memory and page cache. (See Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt) Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead associated with each page of memory in the system. By this, |