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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-08-31 15:40:05 -0700
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Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "There's been a fair amount going on in the docs tree this time around, including: - Support for reproducible document builds, from Ben Hutchings and company. - The ability to automatically generate cross-reference links within a single DocBook book and embedded descriptions for large structures. From Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula. - A new document on how to add a system call from David Drysdale. - Chameleon bus documentation from Johannes Thumshirn. ...plus the usual collection of improvements, typo fixes, and more" * tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: (39 commits) Documentation, add kernel-parameters.txt entry for dis_ucode_ldr Documentation/x86: Rename IRQSTACKSIZE to IRQ_STACK_SIZE Documentation/Intel-IOMMU.txt: Modify definition of DRHD docs: update HOWTO for 3.x -> 4.x versioning kernel-doc: ignore unneeded attribute information scripts/kernel-doc: Adding cross-reference links to html documentation. DocBook: Fix non-determinstic installation of duplicate man pages Documentation: minor typo fix in mailbox.txt Documentation: describe how to add a system call doc: Add more workqueue functions to the documentation ARM: keystone: add documentation for SoCs and EVMs scripts/kernel-doc Allow struct arguments documentation in struct body SubmittingPatches: remove stray quote character Revert "DocBook: Avoid building man pages repeatedly and inconsistently" Documentation: Minor changes to men-chameleon-bus.txt Doc: fix trivial typo in SubmittingPatches MAINTAINERS: Direct Documentation/DocBook/media properly Documentation: installed man pages don't need to be executable fix Evolution submenu name in email-clients.txt Documentation: Add MCB documentation ...
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@@ -225,11 +225,11 @@ with your system. To disable them, echo 4 (bit 3) into drop_caches.
extfrag_threshold
This parameter affects whether the kernel will compact memory or direct
-reclaim to satisfy a high-order allocation. /proc/extfrag_index shows what
-the fragmentation index for each order is in each zone in the system. Values
-tending towards 0 imply allocations would fail due to lack of memory,
-values towards 1000 imply failures are due to fragmentation and -1 implies
-that the allocation will succeed as long as watermarks are met.
+reclaim to satisfy a high-order allocation. The extfrag/extfrag_index file in
+debugfs shows what the fragmentation index for each order is in each zone in
+the system. Values tending towards 0 imply allocations would fail due to lack
+of memory, values towards 1000 imply failures are due to fragmentation and -1
+implies that the allocation will succeed as long as watermarks are met.
The kernel will not compact memory in a zone if the
fragmentation index is <= extfrag_threshold. The default value is 500.
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