[commit: ghc] master: Allow the number of capabilities to be increased at runtime (#3729) (92e7d6c)

[Simon Marlow]

Repository : ssh://darcs.haskell.org//srv/darcs/ghc

On branch  : master

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/92e7d6c92fdd14de424524564376d3522f2a40cc

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commit 92e7d6c92fdd14de424524564376d3522f2a40cc
Author: Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 6 15:12:07 2011 +0000

    Allow the number of capabilities to be increased at runtime (#3729)
    
    At present the number of capabilities can only be *increased*, not
    decreased.  The latter presents a few more challenges!

 docs/users_guide/using.xml |   14 +++-
 includes/rts/Threads.h     |   10 +++
 rts/Capability.c           |   66 ++++++++++++-----
 rts/Capability.h           |    6 ++-
 rts/Linker.c               |    1 +
 rts/Schedule.c             |  172 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 rts/Stats.c                |    2 +-
 rts/Task.c                 |   28 +++++++
 rts/Task.h                 |    5 ++
 rts/Trace.c                |    7 ++
 rts/Trace.h                |    1 +
 rts/eventlog/EventLog.c    |   25 +++++--
 rts/eventlog/EventLog.h    |    1 +
 rts/sm/GC.c                |   50 ++++++++-----
 rts/sm/GC.h                |    2 +-
 rts/sm/Storage.c           |   70 +++++++++++--------
 rts/sm/Storage.h           |    4 +
 17 files changed, 357 insertions(+), 107 deletions(-)


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