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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-05-22 18:27:32 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-05-22 18:27:32 -0700
commitd79ee93de909dfb252279b9a95978bbda9a814a9 (patch)
treebfccca60fd36259ff4bcc5e78a2c272fbd680065 /Documentation
parent2ff2b289a695807e291e1ed9f639d8a3ba5f4254 (diff)
parent1c2927f18576d65631d8e0ddd19e1d023183222e (diff)
Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar: "The biggest change is the cleanup/simplification of the load-balancer: instead of the current practice of architectures twiddling scheduler internal data structures and providing the scheduler domains in colorfully inconsistent ways, we now have generic scheduler code in kernel/sched/core.c:sched_init_numa() that looks at the architecture's node_distance() parameters and (while not fully trusting it) deducts a NUMA topology from it. This inevitably changes balancing behavior - hopefully for the better. There are various smaller optimizations, cleanups and fixlets as well" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched: Taint kernel with TAINT_WARN after sleep-in-atomic bug sched: Remove stale power aware scheduling remnants and dysfunctional knobs sched/debug: Fix printing large integers on 32-bit platforms sched/fair: Improve the ->group_imb logic sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load[] calculations sched/numa: Don't scale the imbalance sched/fair: Revert sched-domain iteration breakage sched/x86: Rewrite set_cpu_sibling_map() sched/numa: Fix the new NUMA topology bits sched/numa: Rewrite the CONFIG_NUMA sched domain support sched/fair: Propagate 'struct lb_env' usage into find_busiest_group sched/fair: Add some serialization to the sched_domain load-balance walk sched/fair: Let minimally loaded cpu balance the group sched: Change rq->nr_running to unsigned int x86/numa: Check for nonsensical topologies on real hw as well x86/numa: Hard partition cpu topology masks on node boundaries x86/numa: Allow specifying node_distance() for numa=fake x86/sched: Make mwait_usable() heed to "idle=" kernel parameters properly sched: Update documentation and comments sched_rt: Avoid unnecessary dequeue and enqueue of pushable tasks in set_cpus_allowed_rt()
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu25
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.txt4
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