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cpusets: document adding/removing cpus to cpuset elaborately
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By writing a tasks's pid to the file, a process adds that task to that
cgroup/cpuset.  But to add a cpu/mem to a cpuset, the new list of cpus
should be written to the cpuset.mems file which would replace the old list
of cpus.  Make this clearer in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nikanth Karthikesan authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jul 1, 2009
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Expand Up @@ -777,6 +777,18 @@ in cpuset directories:
# /bin/echo 1-4 > cpus -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4
# /bin/echo 1,2,3,4 > cpus -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4

To add a CPU to a cpuset, write the new list of CPUs including the
CPU to be added. To add 6 to the above cpuset:

# /bin/echo 1-4,6 > cpus -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4,6

Similarly to remove a CPU from a cpuset, write the new list of CPUs
without the CPU to be removed.

To remove all the CPUs:

# /bin/echo "" > cpus -> clear cpus list

2.3 Setting flags
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