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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 16 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index aa058aa7bf28..f0c86fbb3b48 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ CAP_LAST_CAP from the kernel. core_pattern: core_pattern is used to specify a core dumpfile pattern name. -. max length 128 characters; default value is "core" +. max length 127 characters; default value is "core" . core_pattern is used as a pattern template for the output filename; certain string patterns (beginning with '%') are substituted with their actual values. diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 6af24cdb25cc..3f13d8599337 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -866,14 +866,14 @@ The intent is that compaction has less work to do in the future and to increase the success rate of future high-order allocations such as SLUB allocations, THP and hugetlbfs pages. -To make it sensible with respect to the watermark_scale_factor parameter, -the unit is in fractions of 10,000. The default value of 15,000 means -that up to 150% of the high watermark will be reclaimed in the event of -a pageblock being mixed due to fragmentation. The level of reclaim is -determined by the number of fragmentation events that occurred in the -recent past. If this value is smaller than a pageblock then a pageblocks -worth of pages will be reclaimed (e.g. 2MB on 64-bit x86). A boost factor -of 0 will disable the feature. +To make it sensible with respect to the watermark_scale_factor +parameter, the unit is in fractions of 10,000. The default value of +15,000 on !DISCONTIGMEM configurations means that up to 150% of the high +watermark will be reclaimed in the event of a pageblock being mixed due +to fragmentation. The level of reclaim is determined by the number of +fragmentation events that occurred in the recent past. If this value is +smaller than a pageblock then a pageblocks worth of pages will be reclaimed +(e.g. 2MB on 64-bit x86). A boost factor of 0 will disable the feature. ============================================================= |