From 76ab0f530e4a01d4dc20cdc1d5e87753c579dc18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 14:32:28 -0700 Subject: mm: compaction: add /proc trigger for memory compaction Add a proc file /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory. When an arbitrary value is written to the file, all zones are compacted. The expected user of such a trigger is a job scheduler that prepares the system before the target application runs. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Rik van Riel Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl') diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 6c7d18c53f84..56dd29b97a91 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ files can be found in mm/swap.c. Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - block_dump +- compact_memory - dirty_background_bytes - dirty_background_ratio - dirty_bytes @@ -64,6 +65,15 @@ information on block I/O debugging is in Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt. ============================================================== +compact_memory + +Available only when CONFIG_COMPACTION is set. When 1 is written to the file, +all zones are compacted such that free memory is available in contiguous +blocks where possible. This can be important for example in the allocation of +huge pages although processes will also directly compact memory as required. + +============================================================== + dirty_background_bytes Contains the amount of dirty memory at which the pdflush background writeback -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151