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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 23cae6548d3a..f48178024067 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ just those considered 'most important'. The new vectors are: their statistics are used by kernel developers and interested users to determine the occurrence of interrupts of the given type. -The above IRQ vectors are displayed only when relevent. For example, +The above IRQ vectors are displayed only when relevant. For example, the threshold vector does not exist on x86_64 platforms. Others are suppressed when the system is a uniprocessor. As of this writing, only i386 and x86_64 platforms support the new IRQ vector displays. @@ -574,6 +574,12 @@ The contents of each smp_affinity file is the same by default: > cat /proc/irq/0/smp_affinity ffffffff +There is an alternate interface, smp_affinity_list which allows specifying +a cpu range instead of a bitmask: + + > cat /proc/irq/0/smp_affinity_list + 1024-1031 + The default_smp_affinity mask applies to all non-active IRQs, which are the IRQs which have not yet been allocated/activated, and hence which lack a /proc/irq/[0-9]* directory. @@ -583,12 +589,13 @@ reports itself as being attached. This hardware locality information does not include information about any possible driver locality preference. prof_cpu_mask specifies which CPUs are to be profiled by the system wide -profiler. Default value is ffffffff (all cpus). +profiler. Default value is ffffffff (all cpus if there are only 32 of them). The way IRQs are routed is handled by the IO-APIC, and it's Round Robin between all the CPUs which are allowed to handle it. As usual the kernel has more info than you and does a better job than you, so the defaults are the -best choice for almost everyone. +best choice for almost everyone. [Note this applies only to those IO-APIC's +that support "Round Robin" interrupt distribution.] There are three more important subdirectories in /proc: net, scsi, and sys. The general rule is that the contents, or even the existence of these @@ -836,7 +843,6 @@ Provides counts of softirq handlers serviced since boot time, for each cpu. TASKLET: 0 0 0 290 SCHED: 27035 26983 26971 26746 HRTIMER: 0 0 0 0 - RCU: 1678 1769 2178 2250 1.3 IDE devices in /proc/ide @@ -1202,7 +1208,7 @@ The columns are: W = can do write operations U = can do unblank flags E = it is enabled - C = it is prefered console + C = it is preferred console B = it is primary boot console p = it is used for printk buffer b = it is not a TTY but a Braille device @@ -1331,7 +1337,7 @@ NOTICE: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj is deprecated and will be removed, please see Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. Caveat: when a parent task is selected, the oom killer will sacrifice any first -generation children with seperate address spaces instead, if possible. This +generation children with separate address spaces instead, if possible. This avoids servers and important system daemons from being killed and loses the minimal amount of work. |