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-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erl.xml47
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erlang.xml8
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml21
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/escript.xml10
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/notes.xml2
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/zlib.xml30
6 files changed, 75 insertions, 43 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
index bf0d132955..e737727941 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
@@ -941,6 +941,10 @@
when schedulers frequently run out of work. When disabled,
the frequency with which schedulers run out of work will
not be taken into account by the load balancing logic.
+ <br/>&nbsp;&nbsp;<c>+scl false</c> is similar to
+ <seealso marker="#+sub">+sub true</seealso> with the difference
+ that <c>+sub true</c> also will balance scheduler utilization
+ between schedulers.
</p>
</item>
<tag><marker id="+sct"><c>+sct CpuTopology</c></marker></tag>
@@ -1087,6 +1091,29 @@
documentation of the <seealso marker="#+sbt">+sbt</seealso> flag.
</p>
</item>
+ <tag><marker id="+sub"><c>+sub true|false</c></marker></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Enable or disable
+ <seealso marker="erts:erlang#statistics_scheduler_wall_time">scheduler
+ utilization</seealso> balancing of load. By default scheduler
+ utilization balancing is disabled and instead scheduler
+ compaction of load is enabled which will strive for a load
+ distribution which causes as many scheduler threads as possible
+ to be fully loaded (i.e., not run out of work). When scheduler
+ utilization balancing is enabled the system will instead try to
+ balance scheduler utilization between schedulers. That is,
+ strive for equal scheduler utilization on all schedulers.
+ <br/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<c>+sub true</c> is only supported on
+ systems where the runtime system detects and use a monotonically
+ increasing high resolution clock. On other systems, the runtime
+ system will fail to start.
+ <br/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<c>+sub true</c> implies
+ <seealso marker="#+scl">+scl false</seealso>. The difference
+ between <c>+sub true</c> and <c>+scl false</c> is that
+ <c>+scl false</c> will not try to balance the scheduler
+ utilization.
+ </p>
+ </item>
<tag><marker id="+swct"><c>+sws very_eager|eager|medium|lazy|very_lazy</c></marker></tag>
<item>
<p>
@@ -1126,18 +1153,18 @@
<tag><marker id="+spp"><c>+spp Bool</c></marker></tag>
<item>
<p>Set default scheduler hint for port parallelism. If set to
- <c>true</c>, the VM will schedule port tasks when it by this can
- improve the parallelism in the system. If set to <c>false</c>,
- the VM will try to perform port tasks immediately and by this
- improve latency at the expense of parallelism. If this
- flag has not been passed, the default scheduler hint for port
- parallelism is currently <c>false</c>. The default used can be
- inspected in runtime by calling
- <seealso marker="erlang#system_info_port_parallelism">erlang:system_info(port_parallelism)</seealso>.
+ <c>true</c>, the VM will schedule port tasks when doing so will
+ improve parallelism in the system. If set to <c>false</c>, the VM
+ will try to perform port tasks immediately, improving latency at the
+ expense of parallelism. If this flag has not been passed, the
+ default scheduler hint for port parallelism is currently
+ <c>false</c>. The default used can be inspected in runtime by
+ calling <seealso
+ marker="erlang#system_info_port_parallelism">erlang:system_info(port_parallelism)</seealso>.
The default can be overriden on port creation by passing the
<seealso marker="erlang#open_port_parallelism">parallelism</seealso>
- option to
- <seealso marker="erlang#open_port/2">open_port/2</seealso></p>.
+ option to <seealso
+ marker="erlang#open_port/2">open_port/2</seealso></p>.
</item>
<tag><marker id="sched_thread_stack_size"><c><![CDATA[+sss size]]></c></marker></tag>
<item>
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index 124302a2cb..ea753cfaaf 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -3011,11 +3011,11 @@ os_prompt% </pre>
<tag><marker id="open_port_parallelism"><c>{parallelism, Boolean}</c></marker></tag>
<item>
<p>Set scheduler hint for port parallelism. If set to <c>true</c>,
- the VM will schedule port tasks when it by this can improve the
+ the VM will schedule port tasks when doing so will improve
parallelism in the system. If set to <c>false</c>, the VM will
- try to perform port tasks immediately and by this improving the
- latency at the expense of parallelism. The default can be set on
- system startup by passing the
+ try to perform port tasks immediately, improving latency at the
+ expense of parallelism. The default can be set on system startup
+ by passing the
<seealso marker="erl#+spp">+spp</seealso> command line argument
to <seealso marker="erl">erl(1)</seealso>.
</p>
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml b/erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml
index fffa9f594c..c9eca39a99 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erts_alloc.xml
@@ -395,16 +395,17 @@
<c><![CDATA[<utilization>]]></c> is an integer in the range
<c>[0, 100]</c> representing utilization in percent. When a
utilization value larger than zero is used, allocator instances
- are allowed to abandon multiblock carriers. Currently the default
- is zero. If <c>de</c> (default enabled) is passed instead of a
- <c><![CDATA[<utilization>]]></c>, a recomended non zero utilization
- value will be used. The actual value chosen depend on allocator
- type and may be changed between ERTS versions. Carriers will be
- abandoned when memory utilization in the allocator instance falls
- below the utilization value used. Once a carrier has been abandoned,
- no new allocations will be made in it. When an allocator instance
- gets an increased multiblock carrier need, it will first try to
- fetch an abandoned carrier from an allocator instances of the same
+ are allowed to abandon multiblock carriers. If <c>de</c> (default
+ enabled) is passed instead of a <c><![CDATA[<utilization>]]></c>,
+ a recomended non zero utilization value will be used. The actual
+ value chosen depend on allocator type and may be changed between
+ ERTS versions. Currently the default equals <c>de</c>, but this
+ may be changed in the future. Carriers will be abandoned when
+ memory utilization in the allocator instance falls below the
+ utilization value used. Once a carrier has been abandoned, no new
+ allocations will be made in it. When an allocator instance gets an
+ increased multiblock carrier need, it will first try to fetch an
+ abandoned carrier from an allocator instances of the same
allocator type. If no abandoned carrier could be fetched, it will
create a new empty carrier. When an abandoned carrier has been
fetched it will function as an ordinary carrier. This feature has
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/escript.xml b/erts/doc/src/escript.xml
index 180447cac4..d2b09d4515 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/escript.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/escript.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
<p><c>escript</c> runs a script written in Erlang.</p>
<p>Here follows an example.</p>
<pre>
+$ <input>chmod u+x factorial</input>
$ <input>cat factorial</input>
#!/usr/bin/env escript
%% -*- erlang -*-
@@ -66,12 +67,13 @@ usage() ->
fac(0) -> 1;
fac(N) -> N * fac(N-1).
-$ <input>factorial 5</input>
+$ <input>./factorial 5</input>
factorial 5 = 120
-$ <input>factorial</input>
+$ <input>./factorial</input>
usage: factorial integer
-$ <input>factorial five</input>
-usage: factorial integer </pre>
+$ <input>./factorial five</input>
+usage: factorial integer
+ </pre>
<p>The header of the Erlang script in the example differs from
a normal Erlang module. The first line is intended to be the
interpreter line, which invokes <c>escript</c>. However if you
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml
index 8c008c493e..b4ebef72f4 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@
processes before the BIF returns, or fail with an
exception due to the port not being open. </p><p> The
synchronous port BIFs are: </p> <list> <item><seealso
- marker="erlang#port_close/1/"><c>port_close/1</c></seealso></item>
+ marker="erlang#port_close/1"><c>port_close/1</c></seealso></item>
<item><seealso
marker="erlang#port_command/2"><c>port_command/2</c></seealso></item>
<item><seealso
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/zlib.xml b/erts/doc/src/zlib.xml
index afc597b729..11a7437f5a 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/zlib.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/zlib.xml
@@ -161,20 +161,22 @@ list_to_binary([Compressed|Last])</pre>
state. <c><anno>MemLevel</anno></c>=1 uses minimum memory but is slow and
reduces compression ratio; <c><anno>MemLevel</anno></c>=9 uses maximum
memory for optimal speed. The default value is 8.</p>
- <p>The <c><anno>Strategy</anno></c> parameter is used to tune the
- compression algorithm. Use the value <c>default</c> for
- normal data, <c>filtered</c> for data produced by a filter
- (or predictor), or <c>huffman_only</c> to force Huffman
- encoding only (no string match). Filtered data consists
- mostly of small values with a somewhat random
- distribution. In this case, the compression algorithm is
- tuned to compress them better. The effect of
- <c>filtered</c>is to force more Huffman coding and less
- string matching; it is somewhat intermediate between
- <c>default</c> and <c>huffman_only</c>. The <c><anno>Strategy</anno></c>
- parameter only affects the compression ratio but not the
- correctness of the compressed output even if it is not set
- appropriately.</p>
+ <p>The <c><anno>Strategy</anno></c> parameter is used to tune
+ the compression algorithm. Use the value <c>default</c> for
+ normal data, <c>filtered</c> for data produced by a filter (or
+ predictor), <c>huffman_only</c> to force Huffman encoding
+ only (no string match), or <c>rle</c> to limit match
+ distances to one (run-length encoding). Filtered data
+ consists mostly of small values with a somewhat random
+ distribution. In this case, the compression algorithm is tuned
+ to compress them better. The effect of <c>filtered</c>is to
+ force more Huffman coding and less string matching; it is
+ somewhat intermediate between <c>default</c> and
+ <c>huffman_only</c>. <c>rle</c> is designed to be almost as
+ fast as <c>huffman_only</c>, but give better compression for PNG
+ image data. The <c><anno>Strategy</anno></c> parameter only
+ affects the compression ratio but not the correctness of the
+ compressed output even if it is not set appropriately.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>