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authorPaul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>2008-07-04 10:00:09 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-04 10:40:10 -0700
commit46b6d94eb04a718730c73b83db889341aad0515e (patch)
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parentd823f6bfec2844493c05961133895de21fa0e02d (diff)
downloadlinux-46b6d94eb04a718730c73b83db889341aad0515e.tar.gz
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cpusets.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt4
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cpusets.txt
index 894b844153ea..1f5a924d1e56 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 85c6f574e267..b52f47d588b4 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]