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-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erl.xml47
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml28
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erlang.xml15
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erlc.xml10
-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
8 files changed, 95 insertions, 68 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/erl_driver.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml
index b453a4861e..c2f7fa4588 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml
@@ -745,7 +745,7 @@ typedef struct ErlIOVec {
created and decrement it once when the port associated with
the lock terminates. The emulator will also increment the
reference count when an async job is enqueued and decrement
- it after an async job has been invoked, or canceled. Besides
+ it after an async job has been invoked. Besides
this, it is the responsibility of the driver to ensure that
the reference count does not reach zero before the last use
of the lock by the driver has been made. The reference count
@@ -1995,14 +1995,12 @@ ERL_DRV_EXT2TERM char *buf, ErlDrvUInt len
<c>async_invoke</c> and <c>async_free</c>. It's typically a
pointer to a structure that contains a pipe or event that
can be used to signal that the async operation completed.
- The data should be freed in <c>async_free</c>, because it's
- called if <c>driver_async_cancel</c> is called.</p>
+ The data should be freed in <c>async_free</c>.</p>
<p>When the async operation is done, <seealso marker="driver_entry#ready_async">ready_async</seealso> driver
entry function is called. If <c>ready_async</c> is null in
the driver entry, the <c>async_free</c> function is called
instead.</p>
- <p>The return value is a handle to the asynchronous task, which
- can be used as argument to <c>driver_async_cancel</c>.</p>
+ <p>The return value is a handle to the asynchronous task.</p>
<note>
<p>As of erts version 5.5.4.3 the default stack size for
threads in the async-thread pool is 16 kilowords,
@@ -2040,26 +2038,6 @@ ERL_DRV_EXT2TERM char *buf, ErlDrvUInt len
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name><ret>int</ret><nametext>driver_async_cancel(long id)</nametext></name>
- <fsummary>Cancel an asynchronous call</fsummary>
- <desc>
- <marker id="driver_async_cancel"></marker>
- <p>This function used to cancel a scheduled asynchronous operation,
- if it was still in the queue. It returned 1 if it succeeded, and
- 0 if it failed.</p>
- <p>Since it could not guarantee success, it was more or less useless.
- The user had to implement synchronization of cancellation anyway.
- It also unnecessarily complicated the implementation. Therefore,
- as of OTP-R15B <c>driver_async_cancel()</c> is deprecated, and
- scheduled for removal in OTP-R17. It will currently always fail,
- and return 0.</p>
- <warning><p><c>driver_async_cancel()</c> is deprecated and will
- be removed in the OTP-R17 release.</p>
- </warning>
-
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
<name><ret>int</ret><nametext>driver_lock_driver(ErlDrvPort port)</nametext></name>
<fsummary>Make sure the driver is never unloaded</fsummary>
<desc>
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index 711473afd2..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>
@@ -6008,6 +6008,13 @@ 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>
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlc.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlc.xml
index 10cab344b0..c3fc3b1686 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlc.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlc.xml
@@ -234,6 +234,16 @@ erlc +export_all file.erl</pre>
from the shell.</p>
<p>Supported options: -I, -o, -D, -v, -W, -b.</p>
</item>
+ <tag>.S</tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Erlang assembler source code. It generates a <c><![CDATA[.beam]]></c> file.</p>
+ <p>Supported options: same as for .erl.</p>
+ </item>
+ <tag>.core</tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Erlang core source code. It generates a <c><![CDATA[.beam]]></c> file.</p>
+ <p>Supported options: same as for .erl.</p>
+ </item>
<tag>.yrl</tag>
<item>
<p>Yecc source code. It generates an <c><![CDATA[.erl]]></c> file.</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>