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cpusets: fix and update Documentation
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Make the doc consistent with current cpusets implementation.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Miao Xie authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jun 6, 2008
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The following rules apply to each cpuset:

- Its CPUs and Memory Nodes must be a subset of its parents.
- It can only be marked exclusive if its parent is.
- It can't be marked exclusive unless its parent is.
- If its cpu or memory is exclusive, they may not overlap any sibling.

These rules, and the natural hierarchy of cpusets, enable efficient
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flag, and if set, a call to a new routine cpuset_mem_spread_node()
returns the node to prefer for the allocation.

Similarly, setting 'memory_spread_cache' turns on the flag
Similarly, setting 'memory_spread_slab' turns on the flag
PF_SPREAD_SLAB, and appropriately marked slab caches will allocate
pages from the node returned by cpuset_mem_spread_node().

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In this directory you can find several files:
# ls
cpus cpu_exclusive mems mem_exclusive mem_hardwall tasks
cpu_exclusive memory_migrate mems tasks
cpus memory_pressure notify_on_release
mem_exclusive memory_spread_page sched_load_balance
mem_hardwall memory_spread_slab sched_relax_domain_level

Reading them will give you information about the state of this cpuset:
the CPUs and Memory Nodes it can use, the processes that are using
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