The following commit has been merged in the linux branch: commit e6dcfa7c61c4d31797a12d738bfe0bdec0ca2be1 Author: Alex Chiang achiang@hp.com Date: Wed Oct 21 21:45:36 2009 -0600
Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_[mc|smt]_power_savings
Document sched_[mc|smt]_power_savings by reading existing code and git logs.
Cc: Suresh Siddha suresh.b.siddha@intel.com Cc: Ingo Molnar mingo@elte.hu Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang achiang@hp.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@suse.de
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu index 2ade5c0..8cdda1c 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu @@ -9,6 +9,30 @@ Description:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/
+What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings + /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_smt_power_savings +Date: June 2006 +Contact: Linux kernel mailing list linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org +Description: Discover and adjust the kernel's multi-core scheduler support. + + Possible values are: + + 0 - No power saving load balance (default value) + 1 - Fill one thread/core/package first for long running threads + 2 - Also bias task wakeups to semi-idle cpu package for power + savings + + sched_mc_power_savings is dependent upon SCHED_MC, which is + itself architecture dependent. + + sched_smt_power_savings is dependent upon SCHED_SMT, which + is itself architecture dependent. + + The two files are independent of each other. It is possible + that one file may be present without the other. + + Introduced by git commit 5c45bf27. +
What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/kernel_max /sys/devices/system/cpu/offline