From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qk0-f172.google.com (mail-qk0-f172.google.com [209.85.220.172]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A35156B0255 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 10:31:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: by qkch123 with SMTP id h123so114520954qkc.0 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 07:31:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from m12-12.163.com (m12-12.163.com. [220.181.12.12]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 186si38830734qhq.3.2015.08.26.07.31.03 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 07:31:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 22:29:06 +0800 From: Yaowei Bai Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: clarify in calculating zone protection Message-ID: <20150826142906.GA4194@bbox> References: <1440511291-3990-1-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com> <1440511291-3990-2-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com> <20150825150633.GG6285@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150825150633.GG6285@dhcp22.suse.cz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michal Hocko Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, mgorman@suse.de, vbabka@suse.cz, js1304@gmail.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org, alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com, sasha.levin@oracle.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 05:06:33PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Tue 25-08-15 22:01:31, Yaowei Bai wrote: > > Every zone's protection is calculated from managed_pages not > > present_pages, to avoid misleading, correct it. > > This can be folded in to your previous patch > http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=144023106610358&w=2 OK, thanks. > > > > > Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai > > --- > > Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 4 ++-- > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt > > index 9832ec5..1739b31 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt > > +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt > > @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ zone[i]'s protection[j] is calculated by following expression. > > > > (i < j): > > zone[i]->protection[j] > > - = (total sums of present_pages from zone[i+1] to zone[j] on the node) > > + = (total sums of managed_pages from zone[i+1] to zone[j] on the node) > > / lowmem_reserve_ratio[i]; > > (i = j): > > (should not be protected. = 0; > > @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ The default values of lowmem_reserve_ratio[i] are > > 256 (if zone[i] means DMA or DMA32 zone) > > 32 (others). > > As above expression, they are reciprocal number of ratio. > > -256 means 1/256. # of protection pages becomes about "0.39%" of total present > > +256 means 1/256. # of protection pages becomes about "0.39%" of total managed > > pages of higher zones on the node. > > > > If you would like to protect more pages, smaller values are effective. > > -- > > 1.9.1 > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > -- > Michal Hocko > SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org