From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB896B00CC for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 17:27:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from hpaq14.eem.corp.google.com (hpaq14.eem.corp.google.com [172.25.149.14]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id p07MRvCs026103 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 14:27:57 -0800 Received: from pxi11 (pxi11.prod.google.com [10.243.27.11]) by hpaq14.eem.corp.google.com with ESMTP id p07MRs4w013324 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 14:27:55 -0800 Received: by pxi11 with SMTP id 11so4084008pxi.35 for ; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:27:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 14:27:51 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] Add explanation about min_free_kbytes to clarify its effect In-Reply-To: <65795E11DBF1E645A09CEC7EAEE94B9C3A30A297@USINDEVS02.corp.hds.com> Message-ID: References: <65795E11DBF1E645A09CEC7EAEE94B9C3A30A295@USINDEVS02.corp.hds.com> <65795E11DBF1E645A09CEC7EAEE94B9C3A30A297@USINDEVS02.corp.hds.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Satoru Moriya Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , KOSAKI Motohiro , Randy Dunlap , dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net, Seiji Aguchi List-ID: On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Satoru Moriya wrote: > diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt > index 30289fa..e10b279 100644 > --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt > +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt > @@ -349,7 +349,8 @@ min_free_kbytes: > > This is used to force the Linux VM to keep a minimum number > of kilobytes free. The VM uses this number to compute a > -watermark[WMARK_MIN] value for each lowmem zone in the system. > +watermark[WMARK_MIN] for each lowmem zone and > +watermark[WMARK_LOW/WMARK_HIGH] for each zone in the system. > Each lowmem zone gets a number of reserved free pages based > proportionally on its size. > WMARK_MIN is changed for all zones. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org