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| author | Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com> | 2015-09-08 18:04:10 -0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-09-08 18:35:28 -0400 |
| commit | 013110a73dcf970cb28c5b0a79f9eee577ea6aa2 (patch) | |
| tree | 398a875ba2896297383814281b091faf47574a51 /Documentation/sysctl | |
| parent | c9d13f5fc748a02cb5917a798f065681007342b9 (diff) | |
mm/page_alloc.c: fix a misleading comment
The comment says that the per-cpu batchsize and zone watermarks are
determined by present_pages which is definitely wrong, they are both
calculated from managed_pages. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 9c3f2f8054b5..a4482fceacec 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | |||
| @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ zone[i]'s protection[j] is calculated by following expression. | |||
| 349 | 349 | ||
| 350 | (i < j): | 350 | (i < j): |
| 351 | zone[i]->protection[j] | 351 | zone[i]->protection[j] |
| 352 | = (total sums of present_pages from zone[i+1] to zone[j] on the node) | 352 | = (total sums of managed_pages from zone[i+1] to zone[j] on the node) |
| 353 | / lowmem_reserve_ratio[i]; | 353 | / lowmem_reserve_ratio[i]; |
| 354 | (i = j): | 354 | (i = j): |
| 355 | (should not be protected. = 0; | 355 | (should not be protected. = 0; |
| @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ The default values of lowmem_reserve_ratio[i] are | |||
| 360 | 256 (if zone[i] means DMA or DMA32 zone) | 360 | 256 (if zone[i] means DMA or DMA32 zone) |
| 361 | 32 (others). | 361 | 32 (others). |
| 362 | As above expression, they are reciprocal number of ratio. | 362 | As above expression, they are reciprocal number of ratio. |
| 363 | 256 means 1/256. # of protection pages becomes about "0.39%" of total present | 363 | 256 means 1/256. # of protection pages becomes about "0.39%" of total managed |
| 364 | pages of higher zones on the node. | 364 | pages of higher zones on the node. |
| 365 | 365 | ||
| 366 | If you would like to protect more pages, smaller values are effective. | 366 | If you would like to protect more pages, smaller values are effective. |
