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-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/notes.xml6
3 files changed, 24 insertions, 58 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
index 638e88ca31..71fe08d4e6 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
@@ -538,20 +538,6 @@
<p>Note that a distributed node will fail to start if epmd is
not running.</p>
</item>
- <tag><marker id="smp"/><c><![CDATA[-smp [enable|auto|disable]]]></c></tag>
- <item>
- <p><c>-smp enable</c> and <c>-smp</c> start the Erlang runtime
- system with SMP support enabled. This can fail if no runtime
- system with SMP support is available. <c>-smp auto</c> starts
- the Erlang runtime system with SMP support enabled if it is
- available and more than one logical processor is detected.
- <c>-smp disable</c> starts a runtime system without SMP support.
- The runtime system without SMP support is deprecated and will
- be removed in a future major release.</p>
- <note>
- <p>See also flag<seealso marker="#+S"><c>+S</c></seealso>.</p>
- </note>
- </item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[-version]]></c> (emulator flag)</tag>
<item>
<p>Makes the emulator print its version number. The same
@@ -902,7 +888,7 @@
<c><![CDATA[+S Schedulers:SchedulerOnline]]></c></tag>
<item>
<p>Sets the number of scheduler threads to create and scheduler threads
- to set online when SMP support has been enabled. The maximum for both
+ to set online. The maximum for both
values is 1024. If the Erlang runtime system is able to determine the
number of logical processors configured and logical processors
available, <c>Schedulers</c> defaults to logical processors
@@ -920,8 +906,6 @@
<p>Specifying value <c>0</c> for <c>Schedulers</c> or
<c>SchedulersOnline</c> resets the number of scheduler threads or
scheduler threads online, respectively, to its default value.</p>
- <p>This option is ignored if the emulator does not have SMP support
- enabled (see flag <seealso marker="#smp"><c>-smp</c></seealso>).</p>
</item>
<tag><marker id="+SP"/><c><![CDATA[+SP
SchedulersPercentage:SchedulersOnlinePercentage]]></c></tag>
@@ -929,8 +913,8 @@
<p>Similar to <seealso marker="#+S"><c>+S</c></seealso> but uses
percentages to set the number of scheduler threads to create, based
on logical processors configured, and scheduler threads to set online,
- based on logical processors available, when SMP support has been
- enabled. Specified values must be &gt; 0. For example,
+ based on logical processors available.
+ Specified values must be &gt; 0. For example,
<c>+SP 50:25</c> sets the number of scheduler threads to 50% of the
logical processors configured, and the number of scheduler threads
online to 25% of the logical processors available.
@@ -945,15 +929,13 @@
and 8 logical cores available, the combination of the options
<c>+S 4:4 +SP 50:25</c> (in either order) results in 2 scheduler
threads (50% of 4) and 1 scheduler thread online (25% of 4).</p>
- <p>This option is ignored if the emulator does not have SMP support
- enabled (see flag <seealso marker="#smp"><c>-smp</c></seealso>).</p>
</item>
<tag><marker id="+SDcpu"/><c><![CDATA[+SDcpu
DirtyCPUSchedulers:DirtyCPUSchedulersOnline]]></c></tag>
<item>
<p>Sets the number of dirty CPU scheduler threads to create and dirty
- CPU scheduler threads to set online when threading support has been
- enabled. The maximum for both values is 1024, and each value is
+ CPU scheduler threads to set online.
+ The maximum for both values is 1024, and each value is
further limited by the settings for normal schedulers:</p>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>The number of dirty CPU scheduler threads created cannot exceed
@@ -977,16 +959,14 @@
executing on ordinary schedulers. If the amount of dirty CPU
schedulers was allowed to be unlimited, dirty CPU bound jobs would
potentially starve normal jobs.</p>
- <p>This option is ignored if the emulator does not have threading
- support enabled.</p>
</item>
<tag><marker id="+SDPcpu"/><c><![CDATA[+SDPcpu
DirtyCPUSchedulersPercentage:DirtyCPUSchedulersOnlinePercentage]]></c></tag>
<item>
<p>Similar to <seealso marker="#+SDcpu"><c>+SDcpu</c></seealso> but
uses percentages to set the number of dirty CPU scheduler threads to
- create and the number of dirty CPU scheduler threads to set online
- when threading support has been enabled. Specified values must be
+ create and the number of dirty CPU scheduler threads to set online.
+ Specified values must be
&gt; 0. For example, <c>+SDPcpu 50:25</c> sets the number of dirty
CPU scheduler threads to 50% of the logical processors configured
and the number of dirty CPU scheduler threads online to 25% of the
@@ -1003,13 +983,11 @@
the combination of the options <c>+SDcpu 4:4 +SDPcpu 50:25</c> (in
either order) results in 2 dirty CPU scheduler threads (50% of 4) and
1 dirty CPU scheduler thread online (25% of 4).</p>
- <p>This option is ignored if the emulator does not have threading
- support enabled.</p>
</item>
<tag><marker id="+SDio"/><c><![CDATA[+SDio DirtyIOSchedulers]]></c></tag>
<item>
- <p>Sets the number of dirty I/O scheduler threads to create when
- threading support has been enabled. Valid range is 0-1024. By
+ <p>Sets the number of dirty I/O scheduler threads to create.
+ Valid range is 0-1024. By
default, the number of dirty I/O scheduler threads created is 10,
same as the default number of threads in the <seealso
marker="#async_thread_pool_size">async thread pool</seealso>.</p>
@@ -1019,8 +997,6 @@
expected to execute on dirty I/O schedulers. If the user should schedule CPU
bound jobs on dirty I/O schedulers, these jobs might starve ordinary
jobs executing on ordinary schedulers.</p>
- <p>This option is ignored if the emulator does not have threading
- support enabled.</p>
</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[+sFlag Value]]></c></tag>
<item>
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index 105734d5b2..ba4e07b158 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -4284,7 +4284,6 @@ RealSystem = system + MissedSystem</code>
<desc>
<p><c><anno>Locking</anno></c> is one of the following:</p>
<list type="bulleted">
- <item><c>false</c> (emulator without SMP support)</item>
<item><c>port_level</c> (port-specific locking)</item>
<item><c>driver_level</c> (driver-specific locking)</item>
</list>
@@ -4688,8 +4687,8 @@ RealSystem = system + MissedSystem</code>
selected for execution. Notice however that this does
<em>not</em> mean that no processes on priority <c>low</c>
or <c>normal</c> can run when processes
- are running on priority <c>high</c>. On the runtime
- system with SMP support, more processes can be running
+ are running on priority <c>high</c>. When using multiple
+ schedulers, more processes can be running
in parallel than processes on priority <c>high</c>. That is,
a <c>low</c> and a <c>high</c> priority process can
execute at the same time.</p>
@@ -4704,10 +4703,8 @@ RealSystem = system + MissedSystem</code>
execution.</p>
<note>
<p>Do not depend on the scheduling
- to remain exactly as it is today. Scheduling, at least on
- the runtime system with SMP support, is likely to be
- changed in a future release to use available
- processor cores better.</p>
+ to remain exactly as it is today. Scheduling is likely to be
+ changed in a future release to use available processor cores better.</p>
</note>
<p>There is <em>no</em> automatic mechanism for
avoiding priority inversion, such as priority inheritance
@@ -6219,8 +6216,7 @@ true</pre>
<p><c>statistics(exact_reductions)</c> is
a more expensive operation than
<seealso marker="#statistics_reductions">
- statistics(reductions)</seealso>,
- especially on an Erlang machine with SMP support.</p>
+ statistics(reductions)</seealso>.</p>
</note>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -6604,8 +6600,8 @@ ok
than available logical processors, this value may
be greater than <c>1.0</c>.</p>
<p>As of ERTS version 9.0, the Erlang runtime system
- with SMP support will as default have more schedulers
- than logical processors. This due to the dirty schedulers.</p>
+ will as default have more schedulers than logical processors.
+ This due to the dirty schedulers.</p>
<note>
<p><c>scheduler_wall_time</c> is by default disabled. To
enable it, use
@@ -7975,9 +7971,7 @@ ok
<taglist>
<tag><c>disabled</c></tag>
<item>
- <p>The emulator has only one scheduler thread. The
- emulator does not have SMP support, or have been
- started with only one scheduler thread.</p>
+ <p>The emulator has been started with only one scheduler thread.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>blocked</c></tag>
<item>
@@ -8340,8 +8334,7 @@ ok
</item>
<tag><c>smp_support</c></tag>
<item>
- <p>Returns <c>true</c> if the emulator has been compiled
- with SMP support, otherwise <c>false</c> is returned.</p>
+ <p>Returns <c>true</c>.</p>
</item>
<tag><marker id="system_info_start_time"/><c>start_time</c></tag>
<item>
@@ -8364,8 +8357,7 @@ ok
</item>
<tag><c>threads</c></tag>
<item>
- <p>Returns <c>true</c> if the emulator has been compiled
- with thread support, otherwise <c>false</c> is returned.</p>
+ <p>Returns <c>true</c>.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>thread_pool_size</c></tag>
<item>
@@ -10484,9 +10476,9 @@ true</pre>
<c>receive after 1 -> ok end</c>, except that <c>yield()</c>
is faster.</p>
<warning>
- <p>There is seldom or never any need to use this BIF,
- especially in the SMP emulator, as other processes have a
- chance to run in another scheduler thread anyway.
+ <p>There is seldom or never any need to use this BIF
+ as other processes have a chance to run in another scheduler
+ thread anyway.
Using this BIF without a thorough grasp of how the scheduler
works can cause performance degradation.</p>
</warning>
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml
index ff7d593edb..985ea11b49 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -3493,8 +3493,7 @@
<p>The previously introduced "eager check I/O" feature is
now enabled by default.</p>
<p>Eager check I/O can be disabled using the <c>erl</c>
- command line argument: <seealso
- marker="erl#+secio"><c>+secio false</c></seealso></p>
+ command line argument: <c>+secio false</c></p>
<p>Characteristics impact compared to previous
default:</p> <list> <item>Lower latency and smoother
management of externally triggered I/O operations.</item>
@@ -4275,8 +4274,7 @@
prioritized to the same extent as when eager check I/O is
disabled.</p>
<p>Eager check I/O can be enabled using the <c>erl</c>
- command line argument: <seealso
- marker="erl#+secio"><c>+secio true</c></seealso></p>
+ command line argument: <c>+secio true</c></p>
<p>Characteristics impact when enabled:</p> <list>
<item>Lower latency and smoother management of externally
triggered I/O operations.</item> <item>A slightly reduced