update/cleanup earlyprintk and cgroups

Update slides for latest kernels. Cleanup slide contents. Add slides
about manually setting the CPU affinity.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>

2 files changed, 54 insertions, 46 deletions

diff --git a/kernel-devel/kernel-debugging/pres_kernel-debugging_en.tex b/kernel-devel/kernel-debugging/pres_kernel-debugging_en.tex
index 82dc25b..240eb5a 100644
--- a/kernel-devel/kernel-debugging/pres_kernel-debugging_en.tex
+++ b/kernel-devel/kernel-debugging/pres_kernel-debugging_en.tex
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ Kernel hacking  --->
 [*]   Early printk
 \end{verbatim}
 \begin{verbatim}
-earlyprintk=serial,ttyAMA0,115200,keep \
+earlyprintk \
 console=ttyAMA0,115200
 \end{verbatim}
 \end{frame}
diff --git a/linux-basics/linux-processes/pres_linux-processes_en.tex b/linux-basics/linux-processes/pres_linux-processes_en.tex
index 8d47f98..56dd760 100644
--- a/linux-basics/linux-processes/pres_linux-processes_en.tex
+++ b/linux-basics/linux-processes/pres_linux-processes_en.tex
@@ -232,6 +232,15 @@ working directory and so on...)
 \end{frame}
 
 \begin{frame}[fragile]
+\frametitle{Setting the CPU Affinity}
+The cpu affinity can be set using the taskset command:
+\begin{verbatim}
+taskset [options] mask command [arg]...
+taskset [options] -p [mask] pid
+\end{verbatim}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}[fragile]
 \frametitle{CPU affinity}
 \begin{lstlisting}
 #define _GNU_SOURCE
@@ -253,90 +262,83 @@ sched_setaffinity(pid, CPU_SETSIZE, &set);
 \frametitle{SMP and interrupt routing}
 \begin{verbatim}
 $ ls /proc/irq/
-0  1  10  11  12  13  14  15  17  18  19  2  3	4  5  6  7  8  9  default_smp_affinity
+0  1  10  11  12  13  14  15  17  18  19 ... default_smp_affinity
 
 $ cat /proc/irq/default_smp_affinity
 3
-
-# Set default IRQ affinity to CPU0
-$ echo 1 > /proc/irq/default_smp_affinity
-
-# Set affinity for IRQ19 to CPU1
-$ echo 2 > /proc/irq/19/smp_affinity
+\end{verbatim}
+Set default IRQ affinity to CPU0
+\begin{verbatim}
+echo 1 > /proc/irq/default_smp_affinity
+\end{verbatim}
+Set affinity for IRQ19 to CPU1
+\begin{verbatim}
+echo 2 > /proc/irq/19/smp_affinity
 \end{verbatim}
 \end{frame}
 
-\subsection{Control Groups: CGROUPS}
+\subsection{Control Groups: cgroups}
 
 \begin{frame}
-\frametitle{CGROUPS}
-CGROUPS are a mechanism for partitioning and aggregating tasks
+\frametitle{What are cgroups}
+Control groups (cgroups) are a mechanism for partitioning and aggregating tasks
 into hierarchical groups. Each group has several options like
 CPU time, a specific set of CPUs, ...
 \end{frame}
 
 \begin{frame}[fragile]
-\frametitle{Using CGROUPS}
+\frametitle{Setting up cgroups}
 \begin{verbatim}
-$ mount -t cgroup -o cpu,cpuacct none /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct
+mount -t cgroup -o cpu,cpuacct none /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct
 
-$ mount -t cgroup -o cpuset none /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset
+mount -t cgroup -o cpuset none /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset
 \end{verbatim}
 \end{frame}
 
 \begin{frame}[fragile]
-\frametitle{CGROUPS: Creating new groups}
+\frametitle{Setting up cgroups}
+Create groups nice and cpu0only
 \begin{verbatim}
-$ mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct/group_nice
+mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct/group_nice
 
-$ mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/group_cpu0only
+mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/group_cpu0only
 \end{verbatim}
 \end{frame}
 
 \begin{frame}[fragile]
-\frametitle{CGROUPS: Setting up groups}
+\frametitle{Setting up cgroups}
+Limit CPU time (relative to other tasks) for the nice group
 \begin{verbatim}
-# Limit CPU time
-$ echo 100 > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct/group_nice/cpu.shares
+echo 100 > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct/group_nice/cpu.shares
 \end{verbatim}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
-\frametitle{CGROUPS: Setting up groups}
+Set allowed CPUs and memory nodes for the cpu0only group
 \begin{verbatim}
-# Set allowed CPUs
-$ echo 0 > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/group_cpu0only/cpuset.cpus
+echo 0 > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/group_cpu0only/cpuset.cpus
 
-# Set allowed memory nodes
-$ echo 0 > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/group_cpu0only/cpuset.mems
+echo 0 > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/group_cpu0only/cpuset.mems
 \end{verbatim}
 \end{frame}
 
 \begin{frame}[fragile]
-\frametitle{CGROUPS: Setting up groups}
-Open two shells. In shell 1 do:
+\frametitle{Testing cgroups}
+Open two shells. In shell 1 add the current task to the cpu0only and nice groups and burn the cpu:
 \begin{verbatim}
-# Add the current task to the cpu0only group
-$ echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/group_cpu0only/tasks
+echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/group_cpu0only/tasks
 
-# Add the current task to the nice group
-$ echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct/group_nice/tasks
+echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct/group_nice/tasks
 
-# Create some noise
-$ while true; do echo -n; done
+while true; do echo -n; done
 \end{verbatim}
-In shell 2:
+In shell 2 add the current task to the cpu0only group and burn the cpu:
 \begin{verbatim}
-# Add the current task to the cpu0only group
-$ echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/group_cpu0only/tasks
+echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/group_cpu0only/tasks
 
-# Create some noise
-$ while true; do echo -n; done
+while true; do echo -n; done
 \end{verbatim}
 \end{frame}
 
 \begin{frame}[fragile]
-\frametitle{CGROUPS: Setting up groups}
+\frametitle{Testing cgroups}
 Now check the CPU usage with top
 \begin{verbatim}
 $ top
@@ -349,12 +351,18 @@ PID  USER  PR  NI   VIRT   RES   SHR  S  %CPU  %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 \end{frame}
 
 \begin{frame}[fragile]
-\frametitle{CGROUPS: Who is using CGROUPS?}
-systemd uses CGROUPS! Boot with systemd and check SysFS:
+\frametitle{CPU shares vs. quota}
+What is the difference between cpu.shares and cpu.cfs\_quota\_us?
 \begin{verbatim}
-$ cd /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd
+echo 10000 > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct/group_nice/cpu.cfs_quota_us
+\end{verbatim}
+\end{frame}
 
-$ ls
+\begin{frame}[fragile]
+\frametitle{Who is using cgroups?}
+systemd uses cgroups! Boot with systemd and check sysfs:
+\begin{verbatim}
+$ ls /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd
 ... system.slice ... user.slice
 
 $ ls /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/system.slice