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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-03-14 19:14:06 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-03-14 19:14:06 -0700 |
commit | d4e796152a049f6a675f8b6dcf7080a9d80014e5 (patch) | |
tree | 3d7bff1541b4035f7fd06c7259032e616ea6b497 /Documentation | |
parent | d88bfe1d68735595d57bd071294f664c4f054435 (diff) | |
parent | f9c904b7613b8b4c85b10cd6b33ad41b2843fa9d (diff) |
Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle are:
- Make schedstats a runtime tunable (disabled by default) and
optimize it via static keys.
As most distributions enable CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS=y due to its
instrumentation value, this is a nice performance enhancement.
(Mel Gorman)
- Implement 'simple waitqueues' (swait): these are just pure
waitqueues without any of the more complex features of full-blown
waitqueues (callbacks, wake flags, wake keys, etc.). Simple
waitqueues have less memory overhead and are faster.
Use simple waitqueues in the RCU code (in 4 different places) and
for handling KVM vCPU wakeups.
(Peter Zijlstra, Daniel Wagner, Thomas Gleixner, Paul Gortmaker,
Marcelo Tosatti)
- sched/numa enhancements (Rik van Riel)
- NOHZ performance enhancements (Rik van Riel)
- Various sched/deadline enhancements (Steven Rostedt)
- Various fixes (Peter Zijlstra)
- ... and a number of other fixes, cleanups and smaller enhancements"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (29 commits)
sched/cputime: Fix steal_account_process_tick() to always return jiffies
sched/deadline: Remove dl_new from struct sched_dl_entity
Revert "kbuild: Add option to turn incompatible pointer check into error"
sched/deadline: Remove superfluous call to switched_to_dl()
sched/debug: Fix preempt_disable_ip recording for preempt_disable()
sched, time: Switch VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN to jiffy granularity
time, acct: Drop irq save & restore from __acct_update_integrals()
acct, time: Change indentation in __acct_update_integrals()
sched, time: Remove non-power-of-two divides from __acct_update_integrals()
sched/rt: Kick RT bandwidth timer immediately on start up
sched/debug: Add deadline scheduler bandwidth ratio to /proc/sched_debug
sched/debug: Move sched_domain_sysctl to debug.c
sched/debug: Move the /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features file setup into debug.c
sched/rt: Fix PI handling vs. sched_setscheduler()
sched/core: Remove duplicated sched_group_set_shares() prototype
sched/fair: Consolidate nohz CPU load update code
sched/fair: Avoid using decay_load_missed() with a negative value
sched/deadline: Always calculate end of period on sched_yield()
sched/cgroup: Fix cgroup entity load tracking tear-down
rcu: Use simple wait queues where possible in rcutree
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 8 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 000336733a6a..8ae47a7b4923 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -3532,6 +3532,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. sched_debug [KNL] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. + schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. + Allowed values are enable and disable. This feature + incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler + but is useful for debugging and performance tuning. + skew_tick= [KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set. diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index f886fbb1ad05..f4444c94ff28 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -773,6 +773,14 @@ rtsig-nr shows the number of RT signals currently queued. ============================================================== +sched_schedstats: + +Enables/disables scheduler statistics. Enabling this feature +incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler but is +useful for debugging and performance tuning. + +============================================================== + sg-big-buff: This file shows the size of the generic SCSI (sg) buffer. |