diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 79be347737..0b11599b8a 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ CGroup Rework Completion:
* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
* wiki: document new bus APIs of PID 1 (transient units, Reloading signal)
-* review: slice units, systemctl commands
+* review: systemctl commands
* Send SIGHUP and SIGTERM in session scopes
diff --git a/man/systemd.scope.xml b/man/systemd.scope.xml
index 1400f8f4b1..ff41c926f4 100644
--- a/man/systemd.scope.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.scope.xml
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ along with systemd; If not, see .
processes on its own.
The main purpose of scope units is grouping worker processes
- of a system service for organization and resource management.
+ of a system service for organization and for managing resources.
systemd-run may
be used to easily launch a command in a new scope unit from the
diff --git a/man/systemd.slice.xml b/man/systemd.slice.xml
index 5376921689..7ddef85eec 100644
--- a/man/systemd.slice.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.slice.xml
@@ -55,14 +55,34 @@ along with systemd; If not, see .
DescriptionA unit configuration file whose name ends in
- .slice encodes information about a slice
- created by systemd to manage resources used by a certain group of
+ .slice encodes information about a slice which
+ is a concept for hierarchially managing resources of a group of
processes. This management is performed by creating a node in the
- control group tree. Those processes are part of different units,
- usually .service units (see
- systemd.unit5).
+ control group tree. Units that manage processes (primarilly scope
+ and service units) may be assigned to a specific slice. For each
+ slice certain resource limits may the be set, that apply to all
+ processes of all units contained in that slice. Slices are
+ organized hierarchially in a tree. The name of the slice encodes
+ the location in the tree. The name consists of a "-" separated
+ series of names, which describes the path to the slice from the
+ root slice. The root slice is named,
+ -.slice. Example:
+ foo-bar.slice is a slice that is located
+ within foo.slice, which in turn is located in
+ the root slice -.slice.
+ By default service and scope units are placed in
+ system.slice, virtual machines and containers
+ registered with
+ systemd-machined1
+ are found in machine.slice, and user sessions
+ handled by
+ systemd-logind1
+ in user.slice. See
+ systemd.special5
+ for more information.
+
See
systemd.unit5
for the common options of all unit configuration
@@ -92,7 +112,9 @@ along with systemd; If not, see .
systemd.unit5,
systemd.cgroup5,
systemd.service5,
- systemd.directives7.
+ systemd.scope5,
+ systemd.special7,
+ systemd.directives7