cpusets: document adding/removing cpus to cpuset elaborately

From: Nikanth Karthikesan
Date: Tue Jun 16 2009 - 07:15:33 EST


Writing a pid to the file, tasks adds that task to that cgroup/cpuset. But to
add a cpu/mem to a cpuset, the new list of cpus should be written to the
cpuset.mems file which would replace the old list of cpus. Make this clearer
in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@xxxxxxx>

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diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
index f9ca389..1d7e978 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
@@ -777,6 +777,18 @@ in cpuset directories:
# /bin/echo 1-4 > cpus -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4
# /bin/echo 1,2,3,4 > cpus -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4

+To add a CPU to a cpuset, write the new list of CPUs including the
+CPU to be added. To add 6 to the above cpuset:
+
+# /bin/echo 1-4,6 > cpus -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4,6
+
+Similarly to remove a CPU from a cpuset, write the new list of CPUs
+without the CPU to be removed.
+
+To remove all the CPUs:
+
+# /bin/echo "" > cpus -> clear cpus list
+
2.3 Setting flags
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