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rename from Documentation/x86/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets
rename to Documentation/x86/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=====================
+Fake NUMA For CPUSets
+=====================
+
+:Author: David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu>
+
Using numa=fake and CPUSets for Resource Management
-Written by David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu>
This document describes how the numa=fake x86_64 command-line option can be used
in conjunction with cpusets for coarse memory management. Using this feature,
@@ -20,7 +27,7 @@ you become more familiar with using this combination for resource control,
you'll determine a better setup to minimize the number of nodes you have to deal
with.
-A machine may be split as follows with "numa=fake=4*512," as reported by dmesg:
+A machine may be split as follows with "numa=fake=4*512," as reported by dmesg::
Faking node 0 at 0000000000000000-0000000020000000 (512MB)
Faking node 1 at 0000000020000000-0000000040000000 (512MB)
@@ -34,7 +41,7 @@ A machine may be split as follows with "numa=fake=4*512," as reported by dmesg:
Now following the instructions for mounting the cpusets filesystem from
Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt, you can assign fake nodes (i.e. contiguous memory
-address spaces) to individual cpusets:
+address spaces) to individual cpusets::
[root@xroads /]# mkdir exampleset
[root@xroads /]# mount -t cpuset none exampleset
@@ -47,7 +54,7 @@ Now this cpuset, 'ddset', will only allowed access to fake nodes 0 and 1 for
memory allocations (1G).
You can now assign tasks to these cpusets to limit the memory resources
-available to them according to the fake nodes assigned as mems:
+available to them according to the fake nodes assigned as mems::
[root@xroads /exampleset/ddset]# echo $$ > tasks
[root@xroads /exampleset/ddset]# dd if=/dev/zero of=tmp bs=1024 count=1G
@@ -56,7 +63,8 @@ available to them according to the fake nodes assigned as mems:
Notice the difference between the system memory usage as reported by
/proc/meminfo between the restricted cpuset case above and the unrestricted
case (i.e. running the same 'dd' command without assigning it to a fake NUMA
-cpuset):
+cpuset)::
+
Unrestricted Restricted
MemTotal: 3091900 kB 3091900 kB
MemFree: 42113 kB 1513236 kB
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ x86_64 Support
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