Re: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: clarify in calculating zone protection
From: Yaowei Bai <hidden>
Date: 2015-08-26 14:50:10
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On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 05:06:33PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
On Tue 25-08-15 22:01:31, Yaowei Bai wrote:quoted
Every zone's protection is calculated from managed_pages not present_pages, to avoid misleading, correct it.This can be folded in to your previous patch http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=144023106610358&w=2
OK, thanks.
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Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <redacted> --- Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 9832ec5..1739b31 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.-- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/-- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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