Two problems:
- cpu.idle cgroups show up with 0 weight, correct the
documentation to indicate this.
- cpu.idle has no entry describing it.
Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 16 +++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
index 3f85254f3cef..9debf02bcb39 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
@@ -1093,7 +1093,11 @@ All time durations are in microseconds.
A read-write single value file which exists on non-root
cgroups. The default is "100".
- The weight in the range [1, 10000].
+ For non idle groups (cpu.idle = 0), the weight is in the
+ range [1, 10000].
+
+ If the cgroup has been configured to be SCHED_IDLE (cpu.idle = 1),
+ then the weight will show as a 0.
cpu.weight.nice
A read-write single value file which exists on non-root
@@ -1157,6 +1161,16 @@ All time durations are in microseconds.
values similar to the sched_setattr(2). This maximum utilization
value is used to clamp the task specific maximum utilization clamp.
+ cpu.idle
+ A read-write single value file which exists on non-root cgroups.
+ The default is 0.
+
+ This is the cgroup analog of the per-task SCHED_IDLE sched policy.
+ Setting this value to a 1 will make the scheduling policy of the
+ cgroup SCHED_IDLE. The threads inside the cgroup will retain their
+ own relative priorities, but the cgroup itself will be treated as
+ very low priority relative to its peers.
+
Memory
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