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authorChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>2007-10-16 01:25:38 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-16 09:42:59 -0700
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Memoryless nodes: Use N_HIGH_MEMORY for cpusets
cpusets try to ensure that any node added to a cpuset's mems_allowed is on-line and contains memory. The assumption was that online nodes contained memory. Thus, it is possible to add memoryless nodes to a cpuset and then add tasks to this cpuset. This results in continuous series of oom-kill and apparent system hang. Change cpusets to use node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY] [a.k.a. node_memory_map] in place of node_online_map when vetting memories. Return error if admin attempts to write a non-empty mems_allowed node mask containing only memoryless-nodes. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Cpusets provide a mechanism for assigning a set of CPUs and Memory
-Nodes to a set of tasks.
+Nodes to a set of tasks. In this document "Memory Node" refers to
+an on-line node that contains memory.
Cpusets constrain the CPU and Memory placement of tasks to only
the resources within a tasks current cpuset. They form a nested
@@ -220,8 +221,8 @@ and name space for cpusets, with a minimum of additional kernel code.
The cpus and mems files in the root (top_cpuset) cpuset are
read-only. The cpus file automatically tracks the value of
cpu_online_map using a CPU hotplug notifier, and the mems file
-automatically tracks the value of node_online_map using the
-cpuset_track_online_nodes() hook.
+automatically tracks the value of node_states[N_MEMORY]--i.e.,
+nodes with memory--using the cpuset_track_online_nodes() hook.
1.4 What are exclusive cpusets ?