Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:55:07 -0600 | From | serge@hallyn ... | Subject | Re: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 6/9] |
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Quoting Nick Andrew (nick@nick-andrew.net): > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 06:04:57PM -0800, Paul Menage wrote: > > On Feb 19, 2008 7:12 AM, Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net> wrote: > > > config CGROUPS > > > [...] > > > + When enabled, a new filesystem type "cgroup" is available > > > + and can be mounted to control cpusets. > > How about: > > ... cpusets and other resource/behaviour controllers. > > Ok I added that. This is what I have now: > > > config CGROUPS > bool "Control Group support" > help > Control Groups enables processes to be tracked and grouped > into "cgroups". This enables you, for example, to associate
Maybe Control Groups enable processes to be grouped into "cgroups" to facilitate tracking and resource management. For example a cgroup can tie a set of processes to a set of cpus using "cpusets".
> When enabled, a new filesystem type "cgroup" is available > and can be mounted to control cpusets and other > resource/behaviour controllers. > > See <file:Documentation/cgroups.txt> for more information. > > If unsure, say N. > > > I don't think that description is as clear as it could be. From > the non-kernel-developer point of view, that is. I'll read > Documentation/cgroups.txt more thoroughly and see if I can come > up with a better description. > > Re "other resource/behaviour controllers", what in particular? > I take it that our current controllers are cpusets, scheduler, > CPU accounting and Resource counters? > > Nick. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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