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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@iki.fi>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs/vm: clarify overcommit amount sysctl behavior
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 12:01:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f964967d-dd47-f509-33c3-abd6f8593710@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YbUkdvFBayRwV6ax@casper.infradead.org>

On 11.12.21 23:21, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 09:41:59PM +0200, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>> Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.rst says that the overcommit
>> amount can be set via vm.overcommit_ratio and vm.overcommit_kbytes.
>>
>> Add a clarification that those only take effect in overcommit handling
>> mode 2 ("Don't overcommit"), i.e. they do not act as an "additional"
>> limit that is always enforced.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@iki.fi>
>> ---
> 
> Simple and clear improvement, IMO.  Cc'ing linux-mm to get more eyes on
> it.

As I had the same idea to just make this clearer in the context of
advanced documentation for virtio-mem, so I approve :)

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb



  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-16 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20211211194159.3137362-1-anssi.hannula@iki.fi>
2021-12-11 22:21 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-12-16 11:01   ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2021-12-16 22:53     ` Jonathan Corbet

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