docs: Update credit/credit2 feature docs reflecting new default scheduler

Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

diff --git a/docs/features/sched_credit.pandoc b/docs/features/sched_credit.pandoc
index 79587d8ad97c1e816e798e83c0f6d8c191cf3e8f..706513de6e449eec33f4864eed18cb327a053b42 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/features/sched_credit.pandoc
+++ b/docs/features/sched_credit.pandoc
@@ -12,16 +12,18 @@
 
 # Overview
 
-Credit (also known as Credit1) is the default virtual CPU (vCPU) scheduler
+Credit (also known as Credit1) is the old virtual CPU (vCPU) scheduler
 of the Xen hypervisor.
 
 It is a general purpose, weighted fair-share scheduler.
 
 # User details
 
-Xen supports multiple schedulers. As said, Credit is the default, so it
-is used automatically, unless the `sched=$SCHED` (with `$SCHED` different
-than `credit`) parameter is passed to Xen via the bootloader.
+Xen supports multiple schedulers. Credit is no longer the default.  In
+order to use it as the Xen scheduler the following parameter should be
+passed to the hypervisor at boot:
+
+    `sched=credit`
 
 Once the system is live, for creating a cpupool with Credit as its
 scheduler, either compile a cpupool configuration file, as described
@@ -94,4 +96,5 @@ by also doing the following:
 Date       Revision Version  Notes
 ---------- -------- -------- -------------------------------------------
 2016-10-14 1        Xen 4.8  Document written
+2019-02-7  3        Xen 4.12 No longer default scheduler
 ---------- -------- -------- -------------------------------------------

diff --git a/docs/features/sched_credit2.pandoc b/docs/features/sched_credit2.pandoc
index bce843e1fc3e0e7e165eda108db85a12040deb51..436ff9f8f6ad4df0ff1410e768b2570faeb77485 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/features/sched_credit2.pandoc
+++ b/docs/features/sched_credit2.pandoc
@@ -12,21 +12,19 @@
 
 # Overview
 
-Credit2 is one of the virtual CPU (vCPU) scheduler available in the
+Credit2 is the default virtual CPU (vCPU) scheduler available in the
 Xen hypervisor.
 
 Credit2 was designed as a general purpose scheduler, with particular
 focus on improving handling of mixed workloads, scalability and
-support for low latency applications inside VMs, with respect to
-Credit1.
+support for low latency applications inside VMs.
 
 # User details
 
-Credit2 is not in use by default. In order to use it as the Xen
-scheduler the following parameter should be passed to the hypervisor
-at boot:
-
-    `sched=credit2`
+Xen supports multiple schedulers. As said, Credit2 is the default, so
+it is used automatically, unless the `sched=$SCHED` (with `$SCHED`
+different than `credit2`) parameter is passed to Xen via the
+bootloader.
 
 Other parameters are available for tuning the behavior of Credit2
 (see `docs/misc/xen-command-line.markdown` for a complete list and
@@ -106,4 +104,5 @@ Date       Revision Version  Notes
 ---------- -------- -------- -------------------------------------------
 2016-10-14 1        Xen 4.8  Document written
 2017-11-6  2        Xen 4.10 Soft-affinity and caps implemented
+2019-02-7  3        Xen 4.12 Made the default scheduler
 ---------- -------- -------- -------------------------------------------