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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt')
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 9baf66a9ef4e..ff234d229cbb 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - dirty_writeback_centisecs - drop_caches - extfrag_threshold -- hugepages_treat_as_movable - hugetlb_shm_group - laptop_mode - legacy_va_layout @@ -58,6 +57,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - percpu_pagelist_fraction - stat_interval - stat_refresh +- numa_stat - swappiness - user_reserve_kbytes - vfs_cache_pressure @@ -260,30 +260,6 @@ any throttling. ============================================================== -hugepages_treat_as_movable - -This parameter controls whether we can allocate hugepages from ZONE_MOVABLE -or not. If set to non-zero, hugepages can be allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE. -ZONE_MOVABLE is created when kernel boot parameter kernelcore= is specified, -so this parameter has no effect if used without kernelcore=. - -Hugepage migration is now available in some situations which depend on the -architecture and/or the hugepage size. If a hugepage supports migration, -allocation from ZONE_MOVABLE is always enabled for the hugepage regardless -of the value of this parameter. -IOW, this parameter affects only non-migratable hugepages. - -Assuming that hugepages are not migratable in your system, one usecase of -this parameter is that users can make hugepage pool more extensible by -enabling the allocation from ZONE_MOVABLE. This is because on ZONE_MOVABLE -page reclaim/migration/compaction work more and you can get contiguous -memory more likely. Note that using ZONE_MOVABLE for non-migratable -hugepages can do harm to other features like memory hotremove (because -memory hotremove expects that memory blocks on ZONE_MOVABLE are always -removable,) so it's a trade-off responsible for the users. - -============================================================== - hugetlb_shm_group hugetlb_shm_group contains group id that is allowed to create SysV @@ -622,7 +598,7 @@ oom_dump_tasks Enables a system-wide task dump (excluding kernel threads) to be produced when the kernel performs an OOM-killing and includes such information as -pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, nr_ptes, nr_pmds, swapents, oom_score_adj +pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, pgtables_bytes, swapents, oom_score_adj score, and name. This is helpful to determine why the OOM killer was invoked, to identify the rogue task that caused it, and to determine why the OOM killer chose the task it did to kill. @@ -792,10 +768,25 @@ with no ill effects: errors and warnings on these stats are suppressed.) ============================================================== +numa_stat + +This interface allows runtime configuration of numa statistics. + +When page allocation performance becomes a bottleneck and you can tolerate +some possible tool breakage and decreased numa counter precision, you can +do: + echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/numa_stat + +When page allocation performance is not a bottleneck and you want all +tooling to work, you can do: + echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/numa_stat + +============================================================== + swappiness This control is used to define how aggressive the kernel will swap -memory pages. Higher values will increase agressiveness, lower values +memory pages. Higher values will increase aggressiveness, lower values decrease the amount of swap. A value of 0 instructs the kernel not to initiate swap until the amount of free and file-backed pages is less than the high water mark in a zone. |