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author | Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com> | 2015-09-08 15:04:10 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -0700 |
commit | 013110a73dcf970cb28c5b0a79f9eee577ea6aa2 (patch) | |
tree | 398a875ba2896297383814281b091faf47574a51 /Documentation/sysctl | |
parent | c9d13f5fc748a02cb5917a798f065681007342b9 (diff) | |
download | op-kernel-dev-013110a73dcf970cb28c5b0a79f9eee577ea6aa2.zip op-kernel-dev-013110a73dcf970cb28c5b0a79f9eee577ea6aa2.tar.gz |
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 9c3f2f8..a4482fc 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. (i < j): zone[i]->protection[j] - = (total sums of present_pages from zone[i+1] to zone[j] on the node) + = (total sums of managed_pages from zone[i+1] to zone[j] on the node) / lowmem_reserve_ratio[i]; (i = j): (should not be protected. = 0; @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ The default values of lowmem_reserve_ratio[i] are 256 (if zone[i] means DMA or DMA32 zone) 32 (others). As above expression, they are reciprocal number of ratio. -256 means 1/256. # of protection pages becomes about "0.39%" of total present +256 means 1/256. # of protection pages becomes about "0.39%" of total managed pages of higher zones on the node. If you would like to protect more pages, smaller values are effective. |