From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@iki.fi>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs/vm: clarify overcommit amount sysctl behavior
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:53:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735msduvj.fsf@meer.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f964967d-dd47-f509-33c3-abd6f8593710@redhat.com>
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> writes:
> On 11.12.21 23:21, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 09:41:59PM +0200, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>>> Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.rst says that the overcommit
>>> amount can be set via vm.overcommit_ratio and vm.overcommit_kbytes.
>>>
>>> Add a clarification that those only take effect in overcommit handling
>>> mode 2 ("Don't overcommit"), i.e. they do not act as an "additional"
>>> limit that is always enforced.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@iki.fi>
>>> ---
>>
>> Simple and clear improvement, IMO. Cc'ing linux-mm to get more eyes on
>> it.
>
> As I had the same idea to just make this clearer in the context of
> advanced documentation for virtio-mem, so I approve :)
>
> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Applied, thanks.
jon
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2021-12-11 22:21 ` [PATCH] docs/vm: clarify overcommit amount sysctl behavior Matthew Wilcox
2021-12-16 11:01 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-16 22:53 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
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