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From: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: update the document of numa_zonelist_order
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 15:07:50 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <571B1F46.3040805@huawei.com> (raw)

commit 3193913ce62c63056bc67a6ae378beaf494afa66 change the default value
of numa_zonelist_order, this patch update the document.

Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
---
 Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt |   19 ++++++++++---------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index cb03684..34a5fec 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -581,15 +581,16 @@ Specify "[Nn]ode" for node order
 "Zone Order" orders the zonelists by zone type, then by node within each
 zone.  Specify "[Zz]one" for zone order.
 
-Specify "[Dd]efault" to request automatic configuration.  Autoconfiguration
-will select "node" order in following case.
-(1) if the DMA zone does not exist or
-(2) if the DMA zone comprises greater than 50% of the available memory or
-(3) if any node's DMA zone comprises greater than 70% of its local memory and
-    the amount of local memory is big enough.
-
-Otherwise, "zone" order will be selected. Default order is recommended unless
-this is causing problems for your system/application.
+Specify "[Dd]efault" to request automatic configuration.
+
+On 32-bit, the Normal zone needs to be preserved for allocations accessible
+by the kernel, so "zone" order will be selected.
+
+On 64-bit, devices that require DMA32/DMA are relatively rare, so "node"
+order will be selected.
+
+Default order is recommended unless this is causing problems for your
+system/application.
 
 ==============================================================
 
-- 
1.7.1



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From: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	"Rik van Riel" <riel@redhat.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	"Kamezawa Hiroyuki" <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: update the document of numa_zonelist_order
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 15:07:50 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <571B1F46.3040805@huawei.com> (raw)

commit 3193913ce62c63056bc67a6ae378beaf494afa66 change the default value
of numa_zonelist_order, this patch update the document.

Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
---
 Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt |   19 ++++++++++---------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index cb03684..34a5fec 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -581,15 +581,16 @@ Specify "[Nn]ode" for node order
 "Zone Order" orders the zonelists by zone type, then by node within each
 zone.  Specify "[Zz]one" for zone order.
 
-Specify "[Dd]efault" to request automatic configuration.  Autoconfiguration
-will select "node" order in following case.
-(1) if the DMA zone does not exist or
-(2) if the DMA zone comprises greater than 50% of the available memory or
-(3) if any node's DMA zone comprises greater than 70% of its local memory and
-    the amount of local memory is big enough.
-
-Otherwise, "zone" order will be selected. Default order is recommended unless
-this is causing problems for your system/application.
+Specify "[Dd]efault" to request automatic configuration.
+
+On 32-bit, the Normal zone needs to be preserved for allocations accessible
+by the kernel, so "zone" order will be selected.
+
+On 64-bit, devices that require DMA32/DMA are relatively rare, so "node"
+order will be selected.
+
+Default order is recommended unless this is causing problems for your
+system/application.
 
 ==============================================================
 
-- 
1.7.1

             reply	other threads:[~2016-04-23  7:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-23  7:07 Xishi Qiu [this message]
2016-04-23  7:07 ` [PATCH] mm: update the document of numa_zonelist_order Xishi Qiu

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