From: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@huawei.com>
To: <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, <david@kernel.org>,
<xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>, <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>,
<ljs@kernel.org>, <liam@infradead.org>, <vbabka@kernel.org>,
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Cc: <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>, <sunnanyong@huawei.com>,
<tujinjiang@huawei.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/2] mm/ksm: fix advisor_min_pages_to_scan description
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:10:10 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260824061010.3343959-3-tujinjiang@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260824061010.3343959-1-tujinjiang@huawei.com>
Both Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst and the comment next to the
variable definition in mm/ksm.c describe advisor_min_pages_to_scan as a
lower limit of the pages_to_scan parameter, but that is not how the
scan-time advisor actually uses it. commit 4e5fa4f5eff6 ("mm/ksm: add ksm
advisor") only uses it to initialize ksm_thread_pages_to_scan when the
scan-time advisor is enabled.
ksm_thread_pages_to_scan is adjusted by scan_time_advisor() after a full
scan finishes. ksm_thread_pages_to_scan could be increased or decreased
depend on the real scan time is longer or shorter than the target scan
time. The min value of ksm_thread_pages_to_scan is only limited by
KSM_ADVISOR_MIN_CPU, so ksm_thread_pages_to_scan could be smaller than
ksm_advisor_min_pages_to_scan.
The semantics of advisor_min_pages_to_scan was updated in the v2 patchset
[1], but the documentation wasn't updated.
Update the documentation and comment to match the semantics of
advisor_min_pages_to_scan.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20231028000945.2428830-2-shr@devkernel.io/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@huawei.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst | 4 ++--
mm/ksm.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst
index c9f533b10f6f..c329ca747b8c 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst
@@ -183,8 +183,8 @@ advisor_target_scan_time
pages. The default value is 200 seconds.
advisor_min_pages_to_scan
- specifies the lower limit of the ``pages_to_scan`` parameter of the
- scan time advisor. The default is 500.
+ specifies the initial value of the ``pages_to_scan`` parameter of
+ the scan time advisor. The default is 500.
advisor_max_pages_to_scan
specifies the upper limit of the ``pages_to_scan`` parameter of the
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index 7d5b76478f0b..4a6cf8cf5d60 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ static enum ksm_advisor_type ksm_advisor;
* Only called through the sysfs control interface:
*/
-/* At least scan this many pages per batch. */
+/* Initial number of pages to scan per batch. */
static unsigned long ksm_advisor_min_pages_to_scan = 500;
static void set_advisor_defaults(void)
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-24 6:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-24 6:10 [PATCH v3 0/2] docs/ksm: fix advisor documentation and comment Jinjiang Tu
2026-08-24 6:10 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] docs: ksm: fix typos in sysfs knob names Jinjiang Tu
2026-08-24 16:51 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-08-24 6:10 ` Jinjiang Tu [this message]
2026-08-24 10:10 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] mm/ksm: fix advisor_min_pages_to_scan description David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-24 11:03 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
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