From 3de747c9a28b0f4b8e7e06e550286de766759441 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Kletzander Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:26:26 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: CPU allocation and pinning clarification There was a request for clarifying this part of the documentation. This also fixes a case used with CPU. --- docs/formatdomain.html.in | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in index e671e36ddc..be8489afb0 100644 --- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in +++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in @@ -369,7 +369,8 @@ if it's specified. If both cpuset and placement are not specified, or if placement is "static", but no cpuset is specified, the domain process will be pinned to - all the available physical CPUs. + all the available physical CPUs. These settings are superseded + by CPU tuning. @@ -404,9 +405,11 @@
vcpupin
- The optional vcpupin element specifies which of host - physical CPUS the domain VCPU will be pinned to. If this is omitted, - each VCPU is pinned to all the physical CPUS by default. It contains two + The optional vcpupin element specifies which of host's + physical CPUs the domain VCPU will be pinned to. This setting supersedes + previous VCPU placement specified in CPU + Allocation using vcpu element. If this is omitted, + each VCPU is pinned to all the physical CPUs by default. It contains two required attributes, the attribute vcpu specifies vcpu id, and the attribute cpuset is same as attribute cpuset