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-rw-r--r--Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt3
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt
index 91ecff07ced..d529e02d928 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ CFS implements three scheduling policies:
idle timer scheduler in order to avoid to get into priority
inversion problems which would deadlock the machine.
-SCHED_FIFO/_RR are implemented in sched_rt.c and are as specified by
+SCHED_FIFO/_RR are implemented in sched/rt.c and are as specified by
POSIX.
The command chrt from util-linux-ng 2.13.1.1 can set all of these except
@@ -145,9 +145,9 @@ Classes," an extensible hierarchy of scheduler modules. These modules
encapsulate scheduling policy details and are handled by the scheduler core
without the core code assuming too much about them.
-sched_fair.c implements the CFS scheduler described above.
+sched/fair.c implements the CFS scheduler described above.
-sched_rt.c implements SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR semantics, in a simpler way than
+sched/rt.c implements SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR semantics, in a simpler way than
the previous vanilla scheduler did. It uses 100 runqueues (for all 100 RT
priority levels, instead of 140 in the previous scheduler) and it needs no
expired array.
diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.txt
index b7ee379b651..443f0c76bab 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.txt
@@ -61,10 +61,6 @@ 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.
-For SMT, the architecture must define CONFIG_SCHED_SMT and provide a
-cpumask_t cpu_sibling_map[NR_CPUS], where cpu_sibling_map[i] is the mask of
-all "i"'s siblings as well as "i" itself.
-
Architectures may retain the regular override the default SD_*_INIT flags
while using the generic domain builder in kernel/sched.c if they wish to
retain the traditional SMT->SMP->NUMA topology (or some subset of that). This
diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt
index 1cd5d51bc76..8259b34a66a 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ First field is a sched_yield() statistic:
1) # of times sched_yield() was called
Next three are schedule() statistics:
- 2) # of times we switched to the expired queue and reused it
+ 2) This field is a legacy array expiration count field used in the O(1)
+ scheduler. We kept it for ABI compatibility, but it is always set to zero.
3) # of times schedule() was called
4) # of times schedule() left the processor idle