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@@ -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
@@ -542,7 +544,10 @@ otherwise initial value -1 that indicates the cpuset has no request.
2 : search cores in a package.
3 : search cpus in a node [= system wide on non-NUMA system]
( 4 : search nodes in a chunk of node [on NUMA system] )
- ( 5~ : search system wide [on NUMA system])
+ ( 5 : search system wide [on NUMA system] )
+
+The system default is architecture dependent. The system default
+can be changed using the relax_domain_level= boot parameter.
This file is per-cpuset and affect the sched domain where the cpuset
belongs to. Therefore if the flag 'sched_load_balance' of a cpuset