Merge pull request #11146 from SvenDowideit/takeover-11126

fix to cpu.shares documentation by @hqhq

docs/man/docker-run.1.md

@@ -82,24 +82,38 @@ option can be set multiple times.
 **-c**, **--cpu-shares**=0
    CPU shares (relative weight)
 
-   You can increase the priority of a container
-with the -c option. By default, all containers run at the same priority and get
-the same proportion of CPU cycles, but you can tell the kernel to give more
-shares of CPU time to one or more containers when you start them via **docker
-run**.
-
-The flag `-c` or `--cpu-shares` with value 0 indicates that the running
-container has access to all 1024 (default) CPU shares. However, this value
-can be modified to run a container with a different priority or different
-proportion of CPU cycles.
-
-E.g., If we start three {C0, C1, C2} containers with default values
-(`-c` OR `--cpu-shares` = 0) and one {C3} with (`-c` or `--cpu-shares`=512)
-then C0, C1, and C2 would have access to 100% CPU shares (1024) and C3 would
-only have access to 50% CPU shares (512). In the context of a time-sliced OS
-with time quantum set as 100 milliseconds, containers C0, C1, and C2 will run
-for full-time quantum, and container C3 will run for half-time quantum i.e 50
-milliseconds.
+   By default, all containers get the same proportion of CPU cycles. This proportion
+can be modified by changing the container's CPU share weighting relative
+to the weighting of all other running containers.
+
+To modify the proportion from the default of 1024, use the **-c** or **--cpu-shares**
+flag to set the weighting to 2 or higher.
+
+The proportion will only apply when CPU-intensive processes are running.
+When tasks in one container are idle, other containers can use the
+left-over CPU time. The actual amount of CPU time will vary depending on
+the number of containers running on the system.
+
+For example, consider three containers, one has a cpu-share of 1024 and
+two others have a cpu-share setting of 512. When processes in all three
+containers attempt to use 100% of CPU, the first container would receive
+50% of the total CPU time. If you add a fouth container with a cpu-share
+of 1024, the first container only gets 33% of the CPU. The remaining containers
+receive 16.5%, 16.5% and 33% of the CPU.
+
+On a multi-core system, the shares of CPU time are distributed over all CPU
+cores. Even if a container is limited to less than 100% of CPU time, it can
+use 100% of each individual CPU core.
+
+For example, consider a system with more than three cores. If you start one
+container **{C0}** with **-c=512** running one process, and another container
+**{C1}** with **-c=1024** running two processes, this can result in the following
+division of CPU shares:
+
+    PID    container	CPU	CPU share
+    100    {C0}		0	100% of CPU0
+    101    {C1}		1	100% of CPU1
+    102    {C1}		2	100% of CPU2
 
 **--cap-add**=[]
    Add Linux capabilities

docs/sources/reference/commandline/cli.md

@@ -817,7 +817,8 @@ container at any point.
 This is useful when you want to set up a container configuration ahead
 of time so that it is ready to start when you need it.
 
-Please see the [run command](#run) section for more details.
+Please see the [run command](#run) section and the [Docker run reference](
+/reference/run/) for more details.
 
 #### Examples
 

docs/sources/reference/run.md

@@ -405,7 +405,9 @@ container:
 
     -m="": Memory limit (format: <number><optional unit>, where unit = b, k, m or g)
     -memory-swap="": Total memory limit (memory + swap, format: <number><optional unit>, where unit = b, k, m or g)
-    -c=0 : CPU shares (relative weight)
+    -c, --cpu-shares=0         CPU shares (relative weight)
+
+### Memory constraints
 
 We have four ways to set memory usage:
  - memory=inf, memory-swap=inf (not specify any of them)
@@ -423,24 +425,40 @@ We have four ways to set memory usage:
    It is not allowed to use more than L bytes of memory, swap *plus* memory
    usage is limited by S.
 
-The operator can increase the priority of this container with
-the `-c` option. By default, all containers run at the same priority and
-get the same proportion of CPU cycles, but you can tell the kernel to
-give more shares of CPU time to one or more containers when you start
-them via Docker.
-
-The flag `-c` or `--cpu-shares` with value 0 indicates that the running
-container has access to all 1024 (default) CPU shares. However, this value
-can be modified to run a container with a different priority or different
-proportion of CPU cycles.
-
-E.g., If we start three {C0, C1, C2} containers with default values
-(`-c` OR `--cpu-shares` = 0) and one {C3} with (`-c` or `--cpu-shares`=512)
-then C0, C1, and C2 would have access to 100% CPU shares (1024) and C3 would
-only have access to 50% CPU shares (512). In the context of a time-sliced OS
-with time quantum set as 100 milliseconds, containers C0, C1, and C2 will run
-for full-time quantum, and container C3 will run for half-time quantum i.e 50
-milliseconds.
+### CPU share constraint
+
+By default, all containers get the same proportion of CPU cycles. This proportion
+can be modified by changing the container's CPU share weighting relative
+to the weighting of all other running containers.
+
+To modify the proportion from the default of 1024, use the `-c` or `--cpu-shares`
+flag to set the weighting to 2 or higher.
+
+The proportion will only apply when CPU-intensive processes are running.
+When tasks in one container are idle, other containers can use the
+left-over CPU time. The actual amount of CPU time will vary depending on
+the number of containers running on the system.
+
+For example, consider three containers, one has a cpu-share of 1024 and
+two others have a cpu-share setting of 512. When processes in all three
+containers attempt to use 100% of CPU, the first container would receive
+50% of the total CPU time. If you add a fouth container with a cpu-share
+of 1024, the first container only gets 33% of the CPU. The remaining containers
+receive 16.5%, 16.5% and 33% of the CPU.
+
+On a multi-core system, the shares of CPU time are distributed over all CPU
+cores. Even if a container is limited to less than 100% of CPU time, it can
+use 100% of each individual CPU core.
+
+For example, consider a system with more than three cores. If you start one
+container `{C0}` with `-c=512` running one process, and another container
+`{C1}` with `-c=1024` running two processes, this can result in the following
+division of CPU shares:
+
+    PID    container	CPU	CPU share
+    100    {C0}		0	100% of CPU0
+    101    {C1}		1	100% of CPU1
+    102    {C1}		2	100% of CPU2
 
 ## Runtime privilege, Linux capabilities, and LXC configuration