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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-12-14 18:29:11 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-12-14 18:29:11 -0800
commitadb35e8dc98ba9bda99ff79ac6a05b8fcde2a762 (patch)
treeceb0334110d80b5a756764c3d089257c83faaec9 /Documentation
parent533369b145d8d1bc44b8ed7f0dd0ecffb16384cc (diff)
parent5b78f2dc315354c05300795064f587366a02c6ff (diff)
Merge tag 'sched-core-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Thomas Gleixner: - migrate_disable/enable() support which originates from the RT tree and is now a prerequisite for the new preemptible kmap_local() API which aims to replace kmap_atomic(). - A fair amount of topology and NUMA related improvements - Improvements for the frequency invariant calculations - Enhanced robustness for the global CPU priority tracking and decision making - The usual small fixes and enhancements all over the place * tag 'sched-core-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (61 commits) sched/fair: Trivial correction of the newidle_balance() comment sched/fair: Clear SMT siblings after determining the core is not idle sched: Fix kernel-doc markup x86: Print ratio freq_max/freq_base used in frequency invariance calculations x86, sched: Use midpoint of max_boost and max_P for frequency invariance on AMD EPYC x86, sched: Calculate frequency invariance for AMD systems irq_work: Optimize irq_work_single() smp: Cleanup smp_call_function*() irq_work: Cleanup sched: Limit the amount of NUMA imbalance that can exist at fork time sched/numa: Allow a floating imbalance between NUMA nodes sched: Avoid unnecessary calculation of load imbalance at clone time sched/numa: Rename nr_running and break out the magic number sched: Make migrate_disable/enable() independent of RT sched/topology: Condition EAS enablement on FIE support arm64: Rebuild sched domains on invariance status changes sched/topology,schedutil: Wrap sched domains rebuild sched/uclamp: Allow to reset a task uclamp constraint value sched/core: Fix typos in comments Documentation: scheduler: fix information on arch SD flags, sched_domain and sched_debug ...
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@@ -65,21 +65,17 @@ of the SMP domain will span the entire machine, with each group having the
cpumask of a node. Or, you could do multi-level NUMA or Opteron, for example,
might have just one domain covering its one NUMA level.
-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.
+The implementor should read comments in include/linux/sched/sd_flags.h:
+SD_* to get an idea of the specifics and what to tune for the SD flags
+of a sched_domain.
-Architectures may retain the regular override the default SD_*_INIT flags
-while using the generic domain builder in kernel/sched/core.c if they wish to
-retain the traditional SMT->SMP->NUMA topology (or some subset of that). This
-can be done by #define'ing ARCH_HASH_SCHED_TUNE.
-
-Alternatively, the architecture may completely override the generic domain
-builder by #define'ing ARCH_HASH_SCHED_DOMAIN, and exporting your
-arch_init_sched_domains function. This function will attach domains to all
-CPUs using cpu_attach_domain.
+Architectures may override the generic domain builder and the default SD flags
+for a given topology level by creating a sched_domain_topology_level array and
+calling set_sched_topology() with this array as the parameter.
The sched-domains debugging infrastructure can be enabled by enabling
-CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG. This enables an error checking parse of the sched domains
-which should catch most possible errors (described above). It also prints out
-the domain structure in a visual format.
+CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG and adding 'sched_debug' to your cmdline. If you forgot to
+tweak your cmdline, you can also flip the /sys/kernel/debug/sched_debug
+knob. This enables an error checking parse of the sched domains which should
+catch most possible errors (described above). It also prints out the domain
+structure in a visual format.