Documentation: create new scheduler/ subdirectory

The top-level Documentation/ directory is unmanageably large, so we
should take any obvious opportunities to move stuff into subdirectories.
These sched-*.txt files seem an obvious easy case.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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+Version 14 of schedstats includes support for sched_domains, which hit the
+mainline kernel in 2.6.20 although it is identical to the stats from version
+12 which was in the kernel from 2.6.13-2.6.19 (version 13 never saw a kernel
+release).  Some counters make more sense to be per-runqueue; other to be
+per-domain.  Note that domains (and their associated information) will only
+be pertinent and available on machines utilizing CONFIG_SMP.
+
+In version 14 of schedstat, there is at least one level of domain
+statistics for each cpu listed, and there may well be more than one
+domain.  Domains have no particular names in this implementation, but
+the highest numbered one typically arbitrates balancing across all the
+cpus on the machine, while domain0 is the most tightly focused domain,
+sometimes balancing only between pairs of cpus.  At this time, there
+are no architectures which need more than three domain levels. The first
+field in the domain stats is a bit map indicating which cpus are affected
+by that domain.
+
+These fields are counters, and only increment.  Programs which make use
+of these will need to start with a baseline observation and then calculate
+the change in the counters at each subsequent observation.  A perl script
+which does this for many of the fields is available at
+
+    http://eaglet.rain.com/rick/linux/schedstat/
+
+Note that any such script will necessarily be version-specific, as the main
+reason to change versions is changes in the output format.  For those wishing
+to write their own scripts, the fields are described here.
+
+CPU statistics
+--------------
+cpu<N> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
+
+NOTE: In the sched_yield() statistics, the active queue is considered empty
+    if it has only one process in it, since obviously the process calling
+    sched_yield() is that process.
+
+First four fields are sched_yield() statistics:
+     1) # of times both the active and the expired queue were empty
+     2) # of times just the active queue was empty
+     3) # of times just the expired queue was empty
+     4) # of times sched_yield() was called
+
+Next three are schedule() statistics:
+     5) # of times we switched to the expired queue and reused it
+     6) # of times schedule() was called
+     7) # of times schedule() left the processor idle
+
+Next two are try_to_wake_up() statistics:
+     8) # of times try_to_wake_up() was called
+     9) # of times try_to_wake_up() was called to wake up the local cpu
+
+Next three are statistics describing scheduling latency:
+    10) sum of all time spent running by tasks on this processor (in jiffies)
+    11) sum of all time spent waiting to run by tasks on this processor (in
+        jiffies)
+    12) # of timeslices run on this cpu
+
+
+Domain statistics
+-----------------
+One of these is produced per domain for each cpu described. (Note that if
+CONFIG_SMP is not defined, *no* domains are utilized and these lines
+will not appear in the output.)
+
+domain<N> <cpumask> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
+
+The first field is a bit mask indicating what cpus this domain operates over.
+
+The next 24 are a variety of load_balance() statistics in grouped into types
+of idleness (idle, busy, and newly idle):
+
+     1) # of times in this domain load_balance() was called when the
+        cpu was idle
+     2) # of times in this domain load_balance() checked but found
+        the load did not require balancing when the cpu was idle
+     3) # of times in this domain load_balance() tried to move one or
+        more tasks and failed, when the cpu was idle
+     4) sum of imbalances discovered (if any) with each call to
+        load_balance() in this domain when the cpu was idle
+     5) # of times in this domain pull_task() was called when the cpu
+        was idle
+     6) # of times in this domain pull_task() was called even though
+        the target task was cache-hot when idle
+     7) # of times in this domain load_balance() was called but did
+        not find a busier queue while the cpu was idle
+     8) # of times in this domain a busier queue was found while the
+        cpu was idle but no busier group was found
+
+     9) # of times in this domain load_balance() was called when the
+        cpu was busy
+    10) # of times in this domain load_balance() checked but found the
+        load did not require balancing when busy
+    11) # of times in this domain load_balance() tried to move one or
+        more tasks and failed, when the cpu was busy
+    12) sum of imbalances discovered (if any) with each call to
+        load_balance() in this domain when the cpu was busy
+    13) # of times in this domain pull_task() was called when busy
+    14) # of times in this domain pull_task() was called even though the
+        target task was cache-hot when busy
+    15) # of times in this domain load_balance() was called but did not
+        find a busier queue while the cpu was busy
+    16) # of times in this domain a busier queue was found while the cpu
+        was busy but no busier group was found
+
+    17) # of times in this domain load_balance() was called when the
+        cpu was just becoming idle
+    18) # of times in this domain load_balance() checked but found the
+        load did not require balancing when the cpu was just becoming idle
+    19) # of times in this domain load_balance() tried to move one or more
+        tasks and failed, when the cpu was just becoming idle
+    20) sum of imbalances discovered (if any) with each call to
+        load_balance() in this domain when the cpu was just becoming idle
+    21) # of times in this domain pull_task() was called when newly idle
+    22) # of times in this domain pull_task() was called even though the
+        target task was cache-hot when just becoming idle
+    23) # of times in this domain load_balance() was called but did not
+        find a busier queue while the cpu was just becoming idle
+    24) # of times in this domain a busier queue was found while the cpu
+        was just becoming idle but no busier group was found
+
+   Next three are active_load_balance() statistics:
+    25) # of times active_load_balance() was called
+    26) # of times active_load_balance() tried to move a task and failed
+    27) # of times active_load_balance() successfully moved a task
+
+   Next three are sched_balance_exec() statistics:
+    28) sbe_cnt is not used
+    29) sbe_balanced is not used
+    30) sbe_pushed is not used
+
+   Next three are sched_balance_fork() statistics:
+    31) sbf_cnt is not used
+    32) sbf_balanced is not used
+    33) sbf_pushed is not used
+
+   Next three are try_to_wake_up() statistics:
+    34) # of times in this domain try_to_wake_up() awoke a task that
+        last ran on a different cpu in this domain
+    35) # of times in this domain try_to_wake_up() moved a task to the
+        waking cpu because it was cache-cold on its own cpu anyway
+    36) # of times in this domain try_to_wake_up() started passive balancing
+
+/proc/<pid>/schedstat
+----------------
+schedstats also adds a new /proc/<pid/schedstat file to include some of
+the same information on a per-process level.  There are three fields in
+this file correlating for that process to:
+     1) time spent on the cpu
+     2) time spent waiting on a runqueue
+     3) # of timeslices run on this cpu
+
+A program could be easily written to make use of these extra fields to
+report on how well a particular process or set of processes is faring
+under the scheduler's policies.  A simple version of such a program is
+available at
+    http://eaglet.rain.com/rick/linux/schedstat/v12/latency.c