2020-04-30 16:22:27

by Mauro Carvalho Chehab

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Subject: [PATCH v4 14/19] 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 <[email protected]> # powerpc
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/powerpc/index.rst | 1 +
...ispatch_stats.txt => vcpudispatch_stats.rst} | 17 ++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
rename Documentation/powerpc/{vcpudispatch_stats.txt => vcpudispatch_stats.rst} (94%)

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
similarity index 94%
rename from Documentation/powerpc/vcpudispatch_stats.txt
rename to 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
--
2.25.4