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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-05-22 18:27:32 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-05-22 18:27:32 -0700 |
commit | d79ee93de909dfb252279b9a95978bbda9a814a9 (patch) | |
tree | bfccca60fd36259ff4bcc5e78a2c272fbd680065 /Documentation | |
parent | 2ff2b289a695807e291e1ed9f639d8a3ba5f4254 (diff) | |
parent | 1c2927f18576d65631d8e0ddd19e1d023183222e (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-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 |