From 985ee7f224cca8a0d622b24ec399f364c63fc274 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:00:01 -0700 Subject: cpusets: document proc status cpus and mems allowed lists Provide a little documentation for the two new fields, Cpus_allowed_list and Mems_allowed_list, that were added to each /proc/<pid>/status file a while back. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> --- Documentation/cpusets.txt | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt index 353504de308..894b844153e 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpusets.txt @@ -154,13 +154,15 @@ browsing and modifying the cpusets presently known to the kernel. No new system calls are added for cpusets - all support for querying and modifying cpusets is via this cpuset file system. -The /proc/<pid>/status file for each task has two added lines, +The /proc/<pid>/status file for each task has four added lines, displaying the tasks cpus_allowed (on which CPUs it may be scheduled) and mems_allowed (on which Memory Nodes it may obtain memory), -in the format seen in the following example: +in the two formats seen in the following example: Cpus_allowed: ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff + Cpus_allowed_list: 0-127 Mems_allowed: ffffffff,ffffffff + Mems_allowed_list: 0-63 Each cpuset is represented by a directory in the cgroup file system containing (on top of the standard cgroup files) the following -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2