Merge branch 'wip-2010' of ssh://cvs.cs.unc.edu/cvs/proj/litmus/repo/homepage into wip-2010

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@@ -303,6 +303,11 @@ Technology and Applications Symposium</cite>, pp. 342-353, April 2008.
     <li> 

       Changed codebase from Linux 2.6.24 to Linux 2.6.32

     </li> 

+    <li> 

+        Improved C-EDF plugin. C-EDF supports different cluster sizes (around L2 and L3 caches) and supports dynamic changes of cluster size (when no real-time

+tasks are present). 

+    </li>

+    <li> Synchronization of plugin switching </li>

     <li>Several bugfixes.</li> 

     </div> 

  

@@ -406,20 +411,13 @@ LITMUS_KERNEL: Where to find the LITMUS^RT kernel. ( /path/to/LITMUS_KERNEL )
     default: ../litmus2010

     actual: ../litmus2010

 

-PYTHON_HEADERS: Where to find Python headers. ( /path/to/PYTHON_HEADERS )

-    default: /usr/include/python2.5

-    actual: /usr/include/python2.5

-

 ARCH: Target architecture. (x86_64|sparc64|x86|i686)

     default: x86_64

     actual: x86_64

 

-WSS: Working set size for pm analysis

-    default: 3072

-    actual: 3072

-

 Use scons -H for help about command-line options.

-   </pre>

+

+  </pre>

 </p>

 <p class="notopmargin">

  To summarize, the <span class="src"> liblitmus </span> can be obtained and

@@ -478,6 +476,11 @@ scons
     You can use the tool <span class="src">showsched</span> (part of <span class="src">liblitmus</span>) to display

     the name of the currently active policy.

     </p> 

+   <h4> Configuring improved Clustered-EDF(C-EDF)</h4>

+    <p>

+        Clustered-EDF scheduling plugin can create clusters based on sharing of L2 or L3 cache. The plugin reads the cache level parameter from the file <span class="src"> /proc/litmus/cluster_cache</span>. It maps processors sharing cache at the specified level in one cluster.

+    </li>

+    </p>

     <h3>Changing the Active Policy</h3> 

     <p class="qa"> 

     You can use the tool <span class="src">setsched</span> (part of <span class="src">liblitmus</span>)