In general, you need to have root permissions to run cset\&. The tool mounts the cpusets filesystem and manipulates it\&. Non\-root users do not have permission for these actions\&.
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Cset is a Python application to make using the cpusets facilities in the Linux kernel easier\&. The actual included command is called \fIcset\fR and it allows manipulation of cpusets on the system and provides higher level functions such as implementation and control of a basic cpu shielding setup\&.
The concept of \fIshielded\fR cpus is that a certain number of cpus are partitioned off on the system and only processes that are of interest are run on these cpus (i\&.e\&., inside the shield)\&.
For a simple shielded configuration, one typically uses three cpusets: the root set, a system set and a user set\&. \fICset\fR includes a super command that implements this strategy and lets you easily manage it\&. See \fIcset\-shield(1)\fR for more details\&.
Shielding can be more complex of course where concepts such as priority cpusets and intersecting cpuset can be used\&. You can use \fIcset\fR to help manage this type of shielding as well\&. You will need to use the \fIcset\-set(1)\fR and \fIcset\-proc(1)\fR subcommands directly to do that\&.
The cset subcommand \fIcset\-set(1)\fR allows you to create and destroy arbitrary cpusets on the system and assign arbitrary cpus and memory nodes to them\&. The cpusets so created have to follow the Linux kernel cpuset rules\&. See the \fIcset\-set(1)\fR subcommand for more details\&.
The cset subcommand \fIcset\-proc(1)\fR allows you to manage processes running on various cpusets created on the system\&. You can exec new processes in specific cpusets and move tasks around existing cpusets\&. See the \fIcset\-proc(1)\fR subcommand for more details\&.
The following generic option flags are available\&. Additional options are available per\-command, and documented in the command\-specific documentation\&.
Creates a log file for the current run\&. All manner of useful information is stored in this file\&. This is usually used to debug cset when things don\(cqt go as planned\&.
Converts a CPUSPEC (see \fIcset\-set(1)\fR for definition) to a hexadecimal number and outputs it\&. Useful for setting IRQ stub affinity to a cpuset definition\&.
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The cset commands are divided into groups, according to the primary purpose of those commands\&. Following is a short description of each command\&. A more detailed description is available in individual command manpages\&. Those manpages are named \fIcset\-<command>(1)\fR\&. The first command, \fIhelp\fR, is especially useful as it prints out a long summary of what a particular command does\&.
To create a persistent cpuset setup, i\&.e\&. one that survives a reboot, you need to create the file \fI/etc/init\&.d/cset\fR\&. This distribuition of cset includes an example cset init\&.d file found in \fI/usr/share/doc/pacakges/cpuset\fR which is called \fIcset\&.init\&.d\fR\&. You will need to alter the file to your specifications and copy it to be the file \fI/etc/init\&.d/cset\fR\&. See the comments in that file for more details\&.
Specify the mountpoint where the cpuset filesystem is to be mounted\&. By default this is \fI/cpusets\fR; however, some people prefer to mount this in the more traditional \fI/dev/cpusets\fR\&.
Some substrate code and ideas were taken from the excellent Stacked GIT (stgit) v0\&.13 (see http://gna\&.org/projects/stgit and http://www\&.procode\&.org/stgit)\&. Stacked GIT is under GPL V2 or later\&.
