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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-06-15 09:50:20 +0300
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2020-06-19 23:09:48 +0300
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downloadlinux-599448d8ca9d8d219a2b47d109ee86afb7468490.tar.xz
docs: powerpc: convert vcpudispatch_stats.txt to ReST
- Add a SPDX header; - Use standard markup for document title; - Adjust identation on lists and add blank lines where needed; - Add it to the powerpc index.rst file. Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> # powerpc Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a88855cc8b3a97b9b918a33e78e9ad000cf64be1.1592203650.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/index.rst1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/vcpudispatch_stats.rst (renamed from Documentation/powerpc/vcpudispatch_stats.txt)17
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/index.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/index.rst
index afe2d5e54db6..748bf483b1c2 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/index.rst
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ powerpc
transactional_memory
ultravisor
vas-api
+ vcpudispatch_stats
.. only:: subproject and html
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/vcpudispatch_stats.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/vcpudispatch_stats.rst
index e21476bfd78c..5704657a5987 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/vcpudispatch_stats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/vcpudispatch_stats.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
-VCPU Dispatch Statistics:
-=========================
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+========================
+VCPU Dispatch Statistics
+========================
For Shared Processor LPARs, the POWER Hypervisor maintains a relatively
static mapping of the LPAR processors (vcpus) to physical processor
@@ -20,25 +23,29 @@ The statistics themselves are available by reading the procfs file
a vcpu as represented by the first field, followed by 8 numbers.
The first number corresponds to:
+
1. total vcpu dispatches since the beginning of statistics collection
The next 4 numbers represent vcpu dispatch dispersions:
+
2. number of times this vcpu was dispatched on the same processor as last
time
3. number of times this vcpu was dispatched on a different processor core
as last time, but within the same chip
4. number of times this vcpu was dispatched on a different chip
5. number of times this vcpu was dispatches on a different socket/drawer
-(next numa boundary)
+ (next numa boundary)
The final 3 numbers represent statistics in relation to the home node of
the vcpu:
+
6. number of times this vcpu was dispatched in its home node (chip)
7. number of times this vcpu was dispatched in a different node
8. number of times this vcpu was dispatched in a node further away (numa
-distance)
+ distance)
+
+An example output::
-An example output:
$ sudo cat /proc/powerpc/vcpudispatch_stats
cpu0 6839 4126 2683 30 0 6821 18 0
cpu1 2515 1274 1229 12 0 2509 6 0