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Subject[PATCH] cpuset: hotplug documentation fix
If all the cpus/mems in a cpuset are offlined, the tasks in it will
be moved to the nearest ancestor with non-empty cpus/mems.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
Documentation/cpusets.txt | 18 ++++++++++--------
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt
index 1f5a924..871c1dd 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpusets.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpusets.txt
@@ -635,14 +635,16 @@ prior 'mems' setting, will not be moved.

There is an exception to the above. If hotplug functionality is used
to remove all the CPUs that are currently assigned to a cpuset,
-then the kernel will automatically update the cpus_allowed of all
-tasks attached to CPUs in that cpuset to allow all CPUs. When memory
-hotplug functionality for removing Memory Nodes is available, a
-similar exception is expected to apply there as well. In general,
-the kernel prefers to violate cpuset placement, over starving a task
-that has had all its allowed CPUs or Memory Nodes taken offline. User
-code should reconfigure cpusets to only refer to online CPUs and Memory
-Nodes when using hotplug to add or remove such resources.
+then all the tasks in that cpuset will be moved to the nearest ancestor
+with non-empty cpus. But the moving of some (or all) tasks might fail if
+cpuset is binded with another cgroup subsystem which has some restrictions
+on task attaching. In this failing case, those tasks will stay
+in the original cpuset, and the kernel will automatically update
+their cpus_allowed to allow all online CPUs. When memory hotplug
+functionality for removing Memory Nodes is available, a similar exception
+is expected to apply there as well. In general, the kernel prefers to
+violate cpuset placement, over starving a task that has had all
+its allowed CPUs or Memory Nodes taken offline.

There is a second exception to the above. GFP_ATOMIC requests are
kernel internal allocations that must be satisfied, immediately.
--
1.5.4.rc3


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