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diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml index 4cf5631727..b06d5aeb12 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml @@ -5203,9 +5203,16 @@ ok <c>erlang:system_info(schedulers_online)</c>. </p> <p>Returns the old value of the flag.</p> - <p><em>Note that the dirty schedulers functionality is experimental</em>, and - that you have to enable support for dirty schedulers when building OTP in - order to try the functionality out.</p> + <p>Note that the number of dirty CPU schedulers online may change if the number of + schedulers online changes. For example, if there are 12 schedulers and all are + online, and 6 dirty CPU schedulers, all online as well, and <c>system_flag/2</c> + is used to set the number of schedulers online to 6, then the number of dirty + CPU schedulers online is automatically decreased by half as well, down to 3. + Similarly, the number of dirty CPU schedulers online increases proportionally + to increases in the number of schedulers online.</p> + <p><em>Note that the dirty schedulers functionality is experimental</em>, and + that you have to enable support for dirty schedulers when building OTP in order + to try out the functionality.</p> <p>For more information see <seealso marker="#system_info_dirty_cpu_schedulers">erlang:system_info(dirty_cpu_schedulers)</seealso> and @@ -5438,6 +5445,15 @@ ok <![CDATA[1 <= SchedulersOnline <= erlang:system_info(schedulers)]]>. </p> <p>Returns the old value of the flag.</p> + <p>Note that if the emulator was built with support for <seealso + marker="#system_flag_dirty_cpu_schedulers_online">dirty schedulers</seealso>, + changing the number of schedulers online can also change the number of dirty + CPU schedulers online. For example, if there are 12 schedulers and all are + online, and 6 dirty CPU schedulers, all online as well, and <c>system_flag/2</c> + is used to set the number of schedulers online to 6, then the number of dirty + CPU schedulers online is automatically decreased by half as well, down to 3. + Similarly, the number of dirty CPU schedulers online increases proportionally + to increases in the number of schedulers online.</p> <p>For more information see, <seealso marker="#system_info_schedulers">erlang:system_info(schedulers)</seealso>, and @@ -5817,12 +5833,13 @@ ok boot time and cannot be changed after that. The number of dirty CPU scheduler threads online can however be changed at any time. The number of dirty CPU schedulers can be set on startup by passing - the <seealso marker="erts:erl#+SDcpu">+SDcpu</seealso> command line flag, see - <seealso marker="erts:erl#+SDcpu">erl(1)</seealso>. + the <seealso marker="erts:erl#+SDcpu">+SDcpu</seealso> or + <seealso marker="erts:erl#+SDPcpu">+SDPcpu</seealso> command line flags, + see <seealso marker="erts:erl#+SDcpu">erl(1)</seealso>. </p> <p><em>Note that the dirty schedulers functionality is experimental</em>, and that you have to enable support for dirty schedulers when building OTP in - order to try the functionality out.</p> + order to try out the functionality.</p> <p>See also <seealso marker="#system_flag_dirty_cpu_schedulers_online">erlang:system_flag(dirty_cpu_schedulers_online, DirtyCPUSchedulersOnline)</seealso>, <seealso marker="#system_info_dirty_cpu_schedulers_online">erlang:system_info(dirty_cpu_schedulers_online)</seealso>, <seealso marker="#system_info_dirty_io_schedulers">erlang:system_info(dirty_io_schedulers)</seealso>, @@ -5844,7 +5861,7 @@ ok </p> <p><em>Note that the dirty schedulers functionality is experimental</em>, and that you have to enable support for dirty schedulers when building OTP in - order to try the functionality out.</p> + order to try out the functionality.</p> <p>For more information, see <seealso marker="#system_info_dirty_cpu_schedulers">erlang:system_info(dirty_cpu_schedulers)</seealso>, <seealso marker="#system_info_dirty_io_schedulers">erlang:system_info(dirty_io_schedulers)</seealso>, @@ -5864,7 +5881,7 @@ ok </p> <p><em>Note that the dirty schedulers functionality is experimental</em>, and that you have to enable support for dirty schedulers when building OTP in - order to try the functionality out.</p> + order to try out the functionality.</p> <p>For more information, see <seealso marker="#system_info_dirty_cpu_schedulers">erlang:system_info(dirty_cpu_schedulers)</seealso>, <seealso marker="#system_info_dirty_cpu_schedulers_online">erlang:system_info(dirty_cpu_schedulers_online)</seealso>, and @@ -6094,16 +6111,19 @@ ok <seealso marker="#system_info_multi_scheduling">erlang:system_info(multi_scheduling)</seealso>, and <seealso marker="#system_info_schedulers">erlang:system_info(schedulers)</seealso>.</p> </item> - <tag><marker id="system_info_otp_correction_package"><c>otp_correction_package</c></marker></tag> - <item> - <p>Returns a string containing the OTP correction package version - number that currenly executing VM is part of. Note that other - OTP applications in the system may be part of other OTP correction - packages.</p> - </item> <tag><marker id="system_info_otp_release"><c>otp_release</c></marker></tag> <item> - <p>Returns a string containing the OTP release number.</p> + <p>Returns a string containing the OTP release number of the + OTP release that the currently executing ERTS application is + part of.</p> + <p>As of OTP release 17, the OTP release number corresponds to + the major OTP version number. There is no + <c>erlang:system_info()</c> argument giving the exact OTP + version. This since the exact OTP version in the general case + is hard to determine. For more information see + <seealso marker="doc/system_principles:versions">the + documentation of versions in the system principles + guide</seealso>.</p> </item> <tag><marker id="system_info_port_parallelism"><c>port_parallelism</c></marker></tag> <item><p>Returns the default port parallelism scheduling hint used. @@ -6569,11 +6589,12 @@ ok some details of the encoding. This option was introduced in R11B-4. Currently, the allowed values for <c><anno>Version</anno></c> are <c>0</c> and <c>1</c>.</p> - <p><c>{minor_version, 1}</c> forces any floats in the term to be encoded + <p><c>{minor_version, 1}</c> is since 17.0 the default, it forces any floats in + the term to be encoded in a more space-efficient and exact way (namely in the 64-bit IEEE format, rather than converted to a textual representation). <c>binary_to_term/1</c> - in R11B-4 and later is able decode the new representation.</p> - <p><c>{minor_version, 0}</c> is currently the default, meaning that floats + in R11B-4 and later is able decode this representation.</p> + <p><c>{minor_version, 0}</c> meaning that floats will be encoded using a textual representation; this option is useful if you want to ensure that releases prior to R11B-4 can decode resulting binary.</p> |