From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com,
Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>,
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
rientjes@google.com, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Document the relax_domain_level kernel boot argument
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:56:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080630045640.20308.22031.sendpatchset@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Document the kernel boot parameter: relax_domain_level=.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
---
Documentation/cpusets.txt | 3 +++
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
--- 2.6.26-rc5-mm3.orig/Documentation/cpusets.txt 2008-06-27 06:55:34.000000000 -0700
+++ 2.6.26-rc5-mm3/Documentation/cpusets.txt 2008-06-29 21:49:53.984674621 -0700
@@ -546,6 +546,9 @@ otherwise initial value -1 that indicate
( 4 : search nodes in a chunk of node [on NUMA system] )
( 5~ : search system wide [on NUMA system])
+The system default is 0 (no search). The system default can be
+changed using the relax_domain_level= boot parameter.
+
This file is per-cpuset and affect the sched domain where the cpuset
belongs to. Therefore if the flag 'sched_load_balance' of a cpuset
is disabled, then 'sched_relax_domain_level' have no effect since
--- 2.6.26-rc5-mm3.orig/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2008-06-27 06:28:26.000000000 -0700
+++ 2.6.26-rc5-mm3/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2008-06-29 21:51:10.477997208 -0700
@@ -1732,6 +1732,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters.
Format: <reboot_mode>[,<reboot_mode2>[,...]]
See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c
+ relax_domain_level=
+ [KNL, SMP] Set schedulers default relax_domain_level.
+ See Documentation/cpusets.txt.
+
reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
reservetop= [X86-32]
--
I won't rest till it's the best ...
Programmer, Linux Scalability
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.650.933.1373
next reply other threads:[~2008-06-30 4:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-30 4:56 Paul Jackson [this message]
2008-06-30 6:08 ` Li Zefan
2008-06-30 7:10 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-06-30 13:01 ` Paul Jackson
2008-06-30 6:57 ` Hidetoshi Seto
2008-06-30 7:14 ` Li Zefan
2008-06-30 7:40 ` Hidetoshi Seto
2008-06-30 7:44 ` Li Zefan
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