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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-02-23 04:29:24 +0100 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-02-23 04:29:24 +0100 |
commit | bc49a7831b1137ce1c2dda1c57e3631655f5d2ae (patch) | |
tree | 469380ac3a17e1d927ccf06abc99b6f509deb24a /Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt | |
parent | Merge tag 'devicetree-for-4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/... (diff) | |
parent | mm/z3fold.c: limit first_num to the actual range of possible buddy indexes (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge updates from Andrew Morton:
"142 patches:
- DAX updates
- various misc bits
- OCFS2 updates
- most of MM"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (142 commits)
mm/z3fold.c: limit first_num to the actual range of possible buddy indexes
mm: fix <linux/pagemap.h> stray kernel-doc notation
zram: remove obsolete sysfs attrs
mm/memblock.c: remove unnecessary log and clean up
oom-reaper: use madvise_dontneed() logic to decide if unmap the VMA
mm: drop unused argument of zap_page_range()
mm: drop zap_details::check_swap_entries
mm: drop zap_details::ignore_dirty
mm, page_alloc: warn_alloc nodemask is NULL when cpusets are disabled
mm: help __GFP_NOFAIL allocations which do not trigger OOM killer
mm, oom: do not enforce OOM killer for __GFP_NOFAIL automatically
mm: consolidate GFP_NOFAIL checks in the allocator slowpath
lib/show_mem.c: teach show_mem to work with the given nodemask
arch, mm: remove arch specific show_mem
mm, page_alloc: warn_alloc print nodemask
mm, page_alloc: do not report all nodes in show_mem
Revert "mm: bail out in shrink_inactive_list()"
mm, vmscan: consider eligible zones in get_scan_count
mm, vmscan: cleanup lru size claculations
mm, vmscan: do not count freed pages as PGDEACTIVATE
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt index f2e739545e74..cd28d5ee5273 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ MADV_HUGEPAGE region. echo always >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag echo defer >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag +echo defer+madvise >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag echo madvise >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag echo never >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag @@ -120,10 +121,15 @@ that benefit heavily from THP use and are willing to delay the VM start to utilise them. "defer" means that an application will wake kswapd in the background -to reclaim pages and wake kcompact to compact memory so that THP is +to reclaim pages and wake kcompactd to compact memory so that THP is available in the near future. It's the responsibility of khugepaged to then install the THP pages later. +"defer+madvise" will enter direct reclaim and compaction like "always", but +only for regions that have used madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE); all other regions +will wake kswapd in the background to reclaim pages and wake kcompactd to +compact memory so that THP is available in the near future. + "madvise" will enter direct reclaim like "always" but only for regions that are have used madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE). This is the default behaviour. |