From 46b6d94eb04a718730c73b83db889341aad0515e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:00:09 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] doc: document the relax_domain_level kernel boot argument Document the kernel boot parameter: relax_domain_level=. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> --- Documentation/cpusets.txt | 3 +++ Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt index 894b844153ea6..1f5a924d1e564 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 85c6f574e267d..b52f47d588b40 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: <reboot_mode>[,<reboot_mode2>[,...]] 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] -- GitLab