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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.txt | 4 |
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu index e7be75b96e4b..5dab36448b44 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu @@ -9,31 +9,6 @@ Description: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/ -What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings - /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_smt_power_savings -Date: June 2006 -Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> -Description: Discover and adjust the kernel's multi-core scheduler support. - - Possible values are: - - 0 - No power saving load balance (default value) - 1 - Fill one thread/core/package first for long running threads - 2 - Also bias task wakeups to semi-idle cpu package for power - savings - - sched_mc_power_savings is dependent upon SCHED_MC, which is - itself architecture dependent. - - sched_smt_power_savings is dependent upon SCHED_SMT, which - is itself architecture dependent. - - The two files are independent of each other. It is possible - that one file may be present without the other. - - Introduced by git commit 5c45bf27. - - What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/kernel_max /sys/devices/system/cpu/offline /sys/devices/system/cpu/online diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt index 91ecff07cede..d529e02d928d 100644 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ CFS implements three scheduling policies: idle timer scheduler in order to avoid to get into priority inversion problems which would deadlock the machine. -SCHED_FIFO/_RR are implemented in sched_rt.c and are as specified by +SCHED_FIFO/_RR are implemented in sched/rt.c and are as specified by POSIX. The command chrt from util-linux-ng 2.13.1.1 can set all of these except @@ -145,9 +145,9 @@ Classes," an extensible hierarchy of scheduler modules. These modules encapsulate scheduling policy details and are handled by the scheduler core without the core code assuming too much about them. -sched_fair.c implements the CFS scheduler described above. +sched/fair.c implements the CFS scheduler described above. -sched_rt.c implements SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR semantics, in a simpler way than +sched/rt.c implements SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR semantics, in a simpler way than the previous vanilla scheduler did. It uses 100 runqueues (for all 100 RT priority levels, instead of 140 in the previous scheduler) and it needs no expired array. diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.txt index b7ee379b651b..443f0c76bab4 100644 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.txt +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.txt @@ -61,10 +61,6 @@ The implementor should read comments in include/linux/sched.h: struct sched_domain fields, SD_FLAG_*, SD_*_INIT to get an idea of the specifics and what to tune. -For SMT, the architecture must define CONFIG_SCHED_SMT and provide a -cpumask_t cpu_sibling_map[NR_CPUS], where cpu_sibling_map[i] is the mask of -all "i"'s siblings as well as "i" itself. - Architectures may retain the regular override the default SD_*_INIT flags while using the generic domain builder in kernel/sched.c if they wish to retain the traditional SMT->SMP->NUMA topology (or some subset of that). This |