Re: [PATCH] docs/mm: concepts.rst: Correct the threshold to low watermark

Jonathan Corbet
2020-11-13T22:15:46Z

On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 11:22:20 +0800
Yi Wang <wang.yi59@zte.com.cn> wrote:

> From: Liao Pingfang <liao.pingfang@zte.com.cn>
>
> Actually it should be "low watermark" where we wake up kswapd
> daemon.
>
> Signed-off-by: Liao Pingfang <liao.pingfang@zte.com.cn>
> Signed-off-by: Yi Wang <wang.yi59@zte.com.cn>
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst
> index fa0974f..b966fcf 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst
> @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ pages either asynchronously or synchronously, depending on the state
> of the system. When the system is not loaded, most of the memory is free
> and allocation requests will be satisfied immediately from the free
> pages supply. As the load increases, the amount of the free pages goes
> -down and when it reaches a certain threshold (high watermark), an
> +down and when it reaches a certain threshold (low watermark), an
> allocation request will awaken the ``kswapd`` daemon. It will
> asynchronously scan memory pages and either just free them if the data
> they contain is available elsewhere, or evict to the backing storage

So I tried to apply this, but b4 complains that it's not in the lkml
archive, and indeed it's not. It seems that your message never actually
went to the mailing list? Please resend with an actual public copy;
adding the linux-mm list would also be good.

Thanks,

jon