Use addToUFM_Acc where appropriate

[ghc-hetmet.git] / docs / users_guide / using.xml

diff --git a/docs/users_guide/using.xml b/docs/users_guide/using.xml
index 06b9ccc..eb6b0c0 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/users_guide/using.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/using.xml
@@ -1667,6 +1667,26 @@ f "2"    = 2
 
        <varlistentry>
          <term>
+            <option>-fno-float-in</option>
+            <indexterm><primary><option>-fno-float-in</option></primary></indexterm>
+          </term>
+         <listitem>
+           <para>Turns off the float-in transformation.</para>
+         </listitem>
+       </varlistentry>
+
+       <varlistentry>
+         <term>
+            <option>-fno-specialise</option>
+            <indexterm><primary><option>-fno-specialise</option></primary></indexterm>
+          </term>
+         <listitem>
+           <para>Turns off the automatic specialisation of overloaded functions.</para>
+         </listitem>
+       </varlistentry>
+
+       <varlistentry>
+         <term>
             <option>-fspec-constr</option>
             <indexterm><primary><option>-fspec-constr</option></primary></indexterm>
           </term>
@@ -1951,6 +1971,10 @@ f "2"    = 2
 
             <para>There is no means (currently) by which this value
              may vary after the program has started.</para>
+
+            <para>The current value of the <option>-N</option> option
+              is available to the Haskell program
+              via <literal>GHC.Conc.numCapabilities</literal>.</para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
       </variablelist>
@@ -1960,6 +1984,17 @@ f "2"    = 2
 
       <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
+         <term><option>-qa</option></term>
+          <indexterm><primary><option>-qa</option></primary><secondary>RTS
+          option</secondary></indexterm>
+         <listitem>
+            <para>Use the OS's affinity facilities to try to pin OS
+              threads to CPU cores.  This is an experimental feature,
+              and may or may not be useful.  Please let us know
+              whether it helps for you!</para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+       <varlistentry>
          <term><option>-qm</option></term>
           <indexterm><primary><option>-qm</option></primary><secondary>RTS
           option</secondary></indexterm>
@@ -1967,9 +2002,16 @@ f "2"    = 2
             <para>Disable automatic migration for load balancing.
             Normally the runtime will automatically try to schedule
             threads across the available CPUs to make use of idle
-            CPUs; this option disables that behaviour.  It is probably
-            only of use if you are explicitly scheduling threads onto
-            CPUs with <literal>GHC.Conc.forkOnIO</literal>.</para>
+            CPUs; this option disables that behaviour.  Note that
+              migration only applies to threads; sparks created
+              by <literal>par</literal> are load-balanced separately
+              by work-stealing.</para>
+
+            <para>
+              This option is probably only of use for concurrent
+              programs that explicitly schedule threads onto CPUs
+              with <literal>GHC.Conc.forkOnIO</literal>.
+            </para>
           </listitem>
         </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
@@ -2002,19 +2044,20 @@ f "2"    = 2
        whether your program got faster by using more CPUs or not.  If the user
        time is greater than
        the elapsed time, then the program used more than one CPU.  You should
-       also run the program without <literal>-N</literal> for comparison.</para>
-
-      <para>GHC's parallelism support is new and experimental.  It may make your
-       program go faster, or it might slow it down - either way, we'd be
-       interested to hear from you.</para>
-      
-      <para>One significant limitation with the current implementation is that
-       the garbage collector is still single-threaded, and all execution must
-       stop when GC takes place.  This can be a significant bottleneck in a
-       parallel program, especially if your program does a lot of GC.  If this
-       happens to you, then try reducing the cost of GC by tweaking the GC
-       settings (<xref linkend="rts-options-gc" />): enlarging the heap or the
-       allocation area size is a good start.</para>
+       also run the program without <literal>-N</literal> for
+       comparison.</para>
+
+      <para>The output of <literal>+RTS -s</literal> tells you how
+        many &ldquo;sparks&rdquo; were created and executed during the
+        run of the program (see <xref linkend="rts-options-gc" />), which
+        will give you an idea how well your <literal>par</literal>
+        annotations are working.</para>
+
+      <para>GHC's parallelism support has improved in 6.12.1 as a
+        result of much experimentation and tuning in the runtime
+        system.  We'd still be interested to hear how well it works
+        for you, and we're also interested in collecting parallel
+        programs to add to our benchmarking suite.</para>
     </sect2>
   </sect1>