linux-kernel - [PATCH] cgroup: Fix documentation for cpu.idle

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Message-ID: <20231201005203.309873-1-joshdon@google.com>
Date:   Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:52:03 -0800
From:   Josh Don <joshdon@...gle.com>
To:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Zefan Li <lizefan.x@...edance.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Josh Don <joshdon@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] cgroup: Fix documentation for cpu.idle

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@...gle.com>
---
 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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2.43.0.rc2.451.g8631bc7472-goog