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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-10-07 19:38:43 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-10-07 19:38:43 +0200
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parentnet: use sock_valbool_flag to set/clear SOCK_RXQ_OVFL (diff)
parentMerge git://github.com/davem330/net (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' of github.com:davem330/net
Conflicts: net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/coretemp14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/scaling.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt7
4 files changed, 16 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/coretemp b/Documentation/hwmon/coretemp
index fa8776ab9b18..84d46c0c71a3 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/coretemp
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/coretemp
@@ -35,13 +35,6 @@ the Out-Of-Spec bit. Following table summarizes the exported sysfs files:
All Sysfs entries are named with their core_id (represented here by 'X').
tempX_input - Core temperature (in millidegrees Celsius).
tempX_max - All cooling devices should be turned on (on Core2).
- Initialized with IA32_THERM_INTERRUPT. When the CPU
- temperature reaches this temperature, an interrupt is
- generated and tempX_max_alarm is set.
-tempX_max_hyst - If the CPU temperature falls below than temperature,
- an interrupt is generated and tempX_max_alarm is reset.
-tempX_max_alarm - Set if the temperature reaches or exceeds tempX_max.
- Reset if the temperature drops to or below tempX_max_hyst.
tempX_crit - Maximum junction temperature (in millidegrees Celsius).
tempX_crit_alarm - Set when Out-of-spec bit is set, never clears.
Correct CPU operation is no longer guaranteed.
@@ -49,9 +42,10 @@ tempX_label - Contains string "Core X", where X is processor
number. For Package temp, this will be "Physical id Y",
where Y is the package number.
-The TjMax temperature is set to 85 degrees C if undocumented model specific
-register (UMSR) 0xee has bit 30 set. If not the TjMax is 100 degrees C as
-(sometimes) documented in processor datasheet.
+On CPU models which support it, TjMax is read from a model-specific register.
+On other models, it is set to an arbitrary value based on weak heuristics.
+If these heuristics don't work for you, you can pass the correct TjMax value
+as a module parameter (tjmax).
Appendix A. Known TjMax lists (TBD):
Some information comes from ark.intel.com
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 98c8d4229f0a..cb7f3148035d 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -1042,7 +1042,7 @@ conf/interface/*:
The functional behaviour for certain settings is different
depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not.
-accept_ra - BOOLEAN
+accept_ra - INTEGER
Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them.
It also determines whether or not to transmit Router
@@ -1111,7 +1111,7 @@ dad_transmits - INTEGER
The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send.
Default: 1
-forwarding - BOOLEAN
+forwarding - INTEGER
Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour.
Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
index 58fd7414e6c0..fe67b5c79f0f 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ applying a filter to each packet that assigns it to one of a small number
of logical flows. Packets for each flow are steered to a separate receive
queue, which in turn can be processed by separate CPUs. This mechanism is
generally known as “Receive-side Scaling” (RSS). The goal of RSS and
-the other scaling techniques to increase performance uniformly.
+the other scaling techniques is to increase performance uniformly.
Multi-queue distribution can also be used for traffic prioritization, but
that is not the focus of these techniques.
@@ -186,10 +186,10 @@ are steered using plain RPS. Multiple table entries may point to the
same CPU. Indeed, with many flows and few CPUs, it is very likely that
a single application thread handles flows with many different flow hashes.
-rps_sock_table is a global flow table that contains the *desired* CPU for
-flows: the CPU that is currently processing the flow in userspace. Each
-table value is a CPU index that is updated during calls to recvmsg and
-sendmsg (specifically, inet_recvmsg(), inet_sendmsg(), inet_sendpage()
+rps_sock_flow_table is a global flow table that contains the *desired* CPU
+for flows: the CPU that is currently processing the flow in userspace.
+Each table value is a CPU index that is updated during calls to recvmsg
+and sendmsg (specifically, inet_recvmsg(), inet_sendmsg(), inet_sendpage()
and tcp_splice_read()).
When the scheduler moves a thread to a new CPU while it has outstanding
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ configured. The number of entries in the global flow table is set through:
The number of entries in the per-queue flow table are set through:
- /sys/class/net/<dev>/queues/tx-<n>/rps_flow_cnt
+ /sys/class/net/<dev>/queues/rx-<n>/rps_flow_cnt
== Suggested Configuration
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
index 0924aaca3302..29bdf62aac09 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
@@ -123,10 +123,11 @@ be automatically shutdown if it's set to "never".
khugepaged runs usually at low frequency so while one may not want to
invoke defrag algorithms synchronously during the page faults, it
should be worth invoking defrag at least in khugepaged. However it's
-also possible to disable defrag in khugepaged:
+also possible to disable defrag in khugepaged by writing 0 or enable
+defrag in khugepaged by writing 1:
-echo yes >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag
-echo no >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag
+echo 0 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag
+echo 1 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag
You can also control how many pages khugepaged should scan at each
pass: