cgroup: Fix documentation for cpu.idle

[linux-2.6-microblaze.git] / Documentation / admin-guide / cgroup-v2.rst

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
index 30f6ff2..09e6531 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
@@ -1093,7 +1093,11 @@ All time durations are in microseconds.
        A read-write single value file which exists on non-root
        cgroups.  The default is "100".
 
-       The weight in the range [1, 10000].
+       For non idle groups (cpu.idle = 0), the weight is in the
+       range [1, 10000].
+
+       If the cgroup has been configured to be SCHED_IDLE (cpu.idle = 1),
+       then the weight will show as a 0.
 
   cpu.weight.nice
        A read-write single value file which exists on non-root
@@ -1157,6 +1161,16 @@ All time durations are in microseconds.
         values similar to the sched_setattr(2). This maximum utilization
         value is used to clamp the task specific maximum utilization clamp.
 
+  cpu.idle
+       A read-write single value file which exists on non-root cgroups.
+       The default is 0.
+
+       This is the cgroup analog of the per-task SCHED_IDLE sched policy.
+       Setting this value to a 1 will make the scheduling policy of the
+       cgroup SCHED_IDLE. The threads inside the cgroup will retain their
+       own relative priorities, but the cgroup itself will be treated as
+       very low priority relative to its peers.
+
 
 
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