On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 09:47:48PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: > The cpuset in cgroup v1 accepts a special "cpuset_v2_mode" mount > option that make cpuset.cpus and cpuset.mems behave more like those in > cgroup v2. Document it to make other people more aware of this feature > that can be useful in some circumstances. > > Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> thanks, - Joel > --- > Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst | 11 +++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst > index 86a6ae995d54..7ade3abd342a 100644 > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst > @@ -223,6 +223,17 @@ cpu_online_mask using a CPU hotplug notifier, and the mems file > automatically tracks the value of node_states[N_MEMORY]--i.e., > nodes with memory--using the cpuset_track_online_nodes() hook. > > +The cpuset.effective_cpus and cpuset.effective_mems files are > +normally read-only copies of cpuset.cpus and cpuset.mems files > +respectively. If the cpuset cgroup filesystem is mounted with the > +special "cpuset_v2_mode" option, the behavior of these files will become > +similar to the corresponding files in cpuset v2. In other words, hotplug > +events will not change cpuset.cpus and cpuset.mems. Those events will > +only affect cpuset.effective_cpus and cpuset.effective_mems which show > +the actual cpus and memory nodes that are currently used by this cpuset. > +See Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst for more information about > +cpuset v2 behavior. > + > > 1.4 What are exclusive cpusets ? > -------------------------------- > -- > 2.18.1 >