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| author | Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com> | 2022-04-28 23:16:01 -0700 |
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| committer | akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-04-28 23:16:01 -0700 |
| commit | 8d98e42fb20c25e8efdab4cc1ac46d52ba964aca (patch) | |
| tree | bf73fe0b6c232743a7696a9b03fb54d28d912641 /Documentation | |
| parent | 4fcdcc12915c70761ae6adf25e3a295a75a7431d (diff) | |
Documentation/sysctl: document page_lock_unfairness
commit 5ef64cc8987a ("mm: allow a controlled amount of unfairness in the
page lock") introduced a new systctl but no accompanying documentation.
Add a simple entry to the documentation.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220325164437.120246-1-jsavitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: "zhangyi (F)" <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst index f4804ce37c58..747e325ebcd0 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - overcommit_memory - overcommit_ratio - page-cluster +- page_lock_unfairness - panic_on_oom - percpu_pagelist_high_fraction - stat_interval @@ -754,6 +755,14 @@ extra faults and I/O delays for following faults if they would have been part of that consecutive pages readahead would have brought in. +page_lock_unfairness +==================== + +This value determines the number of times that the page lock can be +stolen from under a waiter. After the lock is stolen the number of times +specified in this file (default is 5), the "fair lock handoff" semantics +will apply, and the waiter will only be awakened if the lock can be taken. + panic_on_oom ============ |