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diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.rst index 5c4b7f4f0062..8582fa5e9170 100644 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.rst +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.rst @@ -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. |