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authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2006-08-30 23:30:38 +0100
committerDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2006-08-30 23:30:38 +0100
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@@ -217,6 +217,12 @@ exclusive cpuset. Also, the use of a Linux virtual file system (vfs)
to represent the cpuset hierarchy provides for a familiar permission
and name space for cpusets, with a minimum of additional kernel code.
+The cpus file in the root (top_cpuset) cpuset is read-only.
+It automatically tracks the value of cpu_online_map, using a CPU
+hotplug notifier. If and when memory nodes can be hotplugged,
+we expect to make the mems file in the root cpuset read-only
+as well, and have it track the value of node_online_map.
+
1.4 What are exclusive cpusets ?
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