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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-21 21:55:43 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-21 21:55:43 +0200
commitbc4016f48161454a9a8e5eb209b0693c6cde9f62 (patch)
treef470f5d711e975b152eec90282f5dd30a1d5dba5 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kern... (diff)
parentsched: Export account_system_vtime() (diff)
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Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (29 commits) sched: Export account_system_vtime() sched: Call tick_check_idle before __irq_enter sched: Remove irq time from available CPU power sched: Do not account irq time to current task x86: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING sched: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING, finer accounting of irq time sched: Add a PF flag for ksoftirqd identification sched: Consolidate account_system_vtime extern declaration sched: Fix softirq time accounting sched: Drop group_capacity to 1 only if local group has extra capacity sched: Force balancing on newidle balance if local group has capacity sched: Set group_imb only a task can be pulled from the busiest cpu sched: Do not consider SCHED_IDLE tasks to be cache hot sched: Drop all load weight manipulation for RT tasks sched: Create special class for stop/migrate work sched: Unindent labels sched: Comment updates: fix default latency and granularity numbers tracing/sched: Add sched_pi_setprio tracepoint sched: Give CPU bound RT tasks preference sched: Try not to migrate higher priority RT tasks ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cputopology.txt23
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt4
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cputopology.txt b/Documentation/cputopology.txt
index f1c5c4bccd3e..902d3151f527 100644
--- a/Documentation/cputopology.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cputopology.txt
@@ -14,25 +14,39 @@ to /proc/cpuinfo.
identifier (rather than the kernel's). The actual value is
architecture and platform dependent.
-3) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings:
+3) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/book_id:
+
+ the book ID of cpuX. Typically it is the hardware platform's
+ identifier (rather than the kernel's). The actual value is
+ architecture and platform dependent.
+
+4) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings:
internel kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
core as cpuX
-4) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings:
+5) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings:
internal kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
physical_package_id.
+6) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/book_siblings:
+
+ internal kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
+ book_id.
+
To implement it in an architecture-neutral way, a new source file,
-drivers/base/topology.c, is to export the 4 attributes.
+drivers/base/topology.c, is to export the 4 or 6 attributes. The two book
+related sysfs files will only be created if CONFIG_SCHED_BOOK is selected.
For an architecture to support this feature, it must define some of
these macros in include/asm-XXX/topology.h:
#define topology_physical_package_id(cpu)
#define topology_core_id(cpu)
+#define topology_book_id(cpu)
#define topology_thread_cpumask(cpu)
#define topology_core_cpumask(cpu)
+#define topology_book_cpumask(cpu)
The type of **_id is int.
The type of siblings is (const) struct cpumask *.
@@ -45,6 +59,9 @@ not defined by include/asm-XXX/topology.h:
3) thread_siblings: just the given CPU
4) core_siblings: just the given CPU
+For architectures that don't support books (CONFIG_SCHED_BOOK) there are no
+default definitions for topology_book_id() and topology_book_cpumask().
+
Additionally, CPU topology information is provided under
/sys/devices/system/cpu and includes these files. The internal
source for the output is in brackets ("[]").
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 8dd7248508a9..ed05a4a0d242 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2435,6 +2435,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
disables clocksource verification at runtime.
Used to enable high-resolution timer mode on older
hardware, and in virtualized environment.
+ [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
+ Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
+ platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
+ can add overhead.
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