linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cpuset: various documentation fixes and updates

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Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:46:17 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpuset: various documentation fixes and updates

Li Zefan wrote:
>>>  If a cpuset has its 'cpus' modified, then each task in that cpuset
>>>  will have its allowed CPU placement changed immediately.  Similarly,
>>> -if a tasks pid is written to a cpusets 'tasks' file, in either its
>>> -current cpuset or another cpuset, then its allowed CPU placement is
>>> -changed immediately.  If such a task had been bound to some subset
>>> -of its cpuset using the sched_setaffinity() call, the task will be
>>> -allowed to run on any CPU allowed in its new cpuset, negating the
>>> -affect of the prior sched_setaffinity() call.
>>> +if a tasks pid is written to another cpusets 'tasks' file, then its
>>         task's pid                      cpuset's
>>
> 
> Paul Jackson is the original author of this document, and he once said he
> doesn't like to use foo's but is used to use foos, so I think I'm not
> going to correct them all through this doc, at least not in this patch. :)

I'll fix them then, unless Paul Menage et al disagree.

-- 
~Randy
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