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| author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2009-06-18 11:16:55 +1000 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2009-06-18 11:16:55 +1000 |
| commit | 4b337c5f245b6587ba844ac7bb13c313a2912f7b (patch) | |
| tree | 999c6a6580b76a083c8efb9dabff709d1c49fcd0 /Documentation/vm/balance | |
| parent | 492b057c426e4aa747484958e18e9da29003985d (diff) | |
| parent | 3fe0344faf7fdcb158bd5c1a9aec960a8d70c8e8 (diff) | |
Merge commit 'origin/master' into next
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/balance b/Documentation/vm/balance index bd3d31bc491..c46e68cf934 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/balance +++ b/Documentation/vm/balance @@ -75,15 +75,15 @@ Page stealing from process memory and shm is done if stealing the page would alleviate memory pressure on any zone in the page's node that has fallen below its watermark. -pages_min/pages_low/pages_high/low_on_memory/zone_wake_kswapd: These are -per-zone fields, used to determine when a zone needs to be balanced. When -the number of pages falls below pages_min, the hysteric field low_on_memory -gets set. This stays set till the number of free pages becomes pages_high. -When low_on_memory is set, page allocation requests will try to free some -pages in the zone (providing GFP_WAIT is set in the request). Orthogonal -to this, is the decision to poke kswapd to free some zone pages. That -decision is not hysteresis based, and is done when the number of free -pages is below pages_low; in which case zone_wake_kswapd is also set. +watemark[WMARK_MIN/WMARK_LOW/WMARK_HIGH]/low_on_memory/zone_wake_kswapd: These +are per-zone fields, used to determine when a zone needs to be balanced. When +the number of pages falls below watermark[WMARK_MIN], the hysteric field +low_on_memory gets set. This stays set till the number of free pages becomes +watermark[WMARK_HIGH]. When low_on_memory is set, page allocation requests will +try to free some pages in the zone (providing GFP_WAIT is set in the request). +Orthogonal to this, is the decision to poke kswapd to free some zone pages. +That decision is not hysteresis based, and is done when the number of free +pages is below watermark[WMARK_LOW]; in which case zone_wake_kswapd is also set. (Good) Ideas that I have heard: |