From: Paul Jackson Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:00:09 +0000 (-0700) Subject: doc: document the relax_domain_level kernel boot argument X-Git-Tag: v2.6.26-rc9~11 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=46b6d94eb04a718730c73b83db889341aad0515e;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git doc: document the relax_domain_level kernel boot argument Document the kernel boot parameter: relax_domain_level=. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson Cc: Michael Kerrisk Reviewed-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt index 894b844153e..1f5a924d1e5 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpusets.txt @@ -546,6 +546,9 @@ otherwise initial value -1 that indicates the cpuset has no request. ( 4 : search nodes in a chunk of node [on NUMA system] ) ( 5 : search system wide [on NUMA system] ) +The system default is architecture dependent. The system default +can be changed using the relax_domain_level= boot parameter. + This file is per-cpuset and affect the sched domain where the cpuset belongs to. Therefore if the flag 'sched_load_balance' of a cpuset is disabled, then 'sched_relax_domain_level' have no effect since diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 85c6f574e26..b52f47d588b 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1679,6 +1679,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Format: [,[,...]] See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c + relax_domain_level= + [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level. + See Documentation/cpusets.txt. + reserve= [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area reservetop= [X86-32]