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-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/net.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt25
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
index df38ef046f8d..cbd05ffc606b 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt
@@ -84,6 +84,16 @@ netdev_max_backlog
84Maximum number of packets, queued on the INPUT side, when the interface 84Maximum number of packets, queued on the INPUT side, when the interface
85receives packets faster than kernel can process them. 85receives packets faster than kernel can process them.
86 86
87netdev_tstamp_prequeue
88----------------------
89
90If set to 0, RX packet timestamps can be sampled after RPS processing, when
91the target CPU processes packets. It might give some delay on timestamps, but
92permit to distribute the load on several cpus.
93
94If set to 1 (default), timestamps are sampled as soon as possible, before
95queueing.
96
87optmem_max 97optmem_max
88---------- 98----------
89 99
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index 6c7d18c53f84..5fdbb612aeb8 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ files can be found in mm/swap.c.
19Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: 19Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
20 20
21- block_dump 21- block_dump
22- compact_memory
22- dirty_background_bytes 23- dirty_background_bytes
23- dirty_background_ratio 24- dirty_background_ratio
24- dirty_bytes 25- dirty_bytes
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
26- dirty_ratio 27- dirty_ratio
27- dirty_writeback_centisecs 28- dirty_writeback_centisecs
28- drop_caches 29- drop_caches
30- extfrag_threshold
29- hugepages_treat_as_movable 31- hugepages_treat_as_movable
30- hugetlb_shm_group 32- hugetlb_shm_group
31- laptop_mode 33- laptop_mode
@@ -64,6 +66,15 @@ information on block I/O debugging is in Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt.
64 66
65============================================================== 67==============================================================
66 68
69compact_memory
70
71Available only when CONFIG_COMPACTION is set. When 1 is written to the file,
72all zones are compacted such that free memory is available in contiguous
73blocks where possible. This can be important for example in the allocation of
74huge pages although processes will also directly compact memory as required.
75
76==============================================================
77
67dirty_background_bytes 78dirty_background_bytes
68 79
69Contains the amount of dirty memory at which the pdflush background writeback 80Contains the amount of dirty memory at which the pdflush background writeback
@@ -139,6 +150,20 @@ user should run `sync' first.
139 150
140============================================================== 151==============================================================
141 152
153extfrag_threshold
154
155This parameter affects whether the kernel will compact memory or direct
156reclaim to satisfy a high-order allocation. /proc/extfrag_index shows what
157the fragmentation index for each order is in each zone in the system. Values
158tending towards 0 imply allocations would fail due to lack of memory,
159values towards 1000 imply failures are due to fragmentation and -1 implies
160that the allocation will succeed as long as watermarks are met.
161
162The kernel will not compact memory in a zone if the
163fragmentation index is <= extfrag_threshold. The default value is 500.
164
165==============================================================
166
142hugepages_treat_as_movable 167hugepages_treat_as_movable
143 168
144This parameter is only useful when kernelcore= is specified at boot time to 169This parameter is only useful when kernelcore= is specified at boot time to