From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760947AbYJMXic (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:38:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760753AbYJMXiU (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:38:20 -0400 Received: from fw.bitband.com ([213.8.50.174]:46500 "EHLO mail.bitband.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756667AbYJMXiT (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:38:19 -0400 Subject: Subject: [PATCH 1/2] linux-acpi: sos documentation From: raz ben yehuda To: lenb@kernel.org Cc: Ingo Molnar , lkml , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:38:13 +0200 Message-Id: <1223941094.5437.17.camel@raz> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-8.el5_2.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Raz Ben Yehuda Signed-off-by: Raz Ben Yehuda --- diff -urpN linux-2.6.27/Documentation/SOS.txt linux-2.6.27-dbg/Documentation/SOS.txt --- linux-2.6.27/Documentation/SOS.txt 1970-01-01 02:00:00.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.27-dbg/Documentation/SOS.txt 2008-10-14 00:29:32.000000000 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ + SOS + +SOS is a service oriented scheduler. SOS is a method of relating one or more +distinct services to a processor.In other words, a core(s) is assigned to +a chore, not a chore to a core. +Technically speaking, by virtually removing a processor from the operating +system, using Linux ACPI facility one can bind processors to services. +SOS management and control is done by sosctl. +To fully understand what is SOS, when should it be used it and for which +puprose,please refer to http://sos-linux.cvs.sourceforge.net/sos-linux/sos/Documentation/. + +Author: Raz Ben Yehuda +Date: 2/08/2008 +Open University Israel.Computer Sciences Department. MSC.