On 09/27/2011 09:06 PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
The man page suggest that the cpu_shares parameter of schedinfo
allows values 0-262144, but the kernel remaps values 0 and 1 to
the minimum 2, just document that behaviour:
[root@test ~]# cat /cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/cpu.shares
1024
[root@test ~]# echo 0> /cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/cpu.shares
[root@test ~]# cat /cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/cpu.shares
2
[root@test ~]# echo 1> /cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/cpu.shares
[root@test ~]# cat /cgroup/cpu/libvirt/qemu/cpu.shares
2
[root@test ~]#
* tools/virsh.pod: update description of the cpu_shares parameter
to indicate the values 0 and 1 are automatically changed by the
kernel to minimal value 2
diff --git a/tools/virsh.pod b/tools/virsh.pod
index a01d723..6e3febb 100644
--- a/tools/virsh.pod
+++ b/tools/virsh.pod
@@ -914,7 +914,9 @@ If I<--current> is specified, affect the current guest state.
B<Note>: The cpu_shares parameter has a valid value range of 0-262144; Negative
values are wrapped to positive, and larger values are capped at the maximum.
-Therefore, -1 is a useful shorthand for 262144.
+Therefore, -1 is a useful shorthand for 262144. The values 0 and 1 seems to
+also be automatically changed by the Linux kernel to 2 which consider this
+the minimal value.
Awkward reading to a native English speaker. How about:
On the Linux kernel, the values 0 and 1 are automatically converted to a
minimal value of 2.
ACK with that tweak.
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