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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-02-14 14:25:59 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-02-14 14:25:59 -0800 |
| commit | 1b79dff672ca09a5461cc1d46ad81c62137841c5 (patch) | |
| tree | 772a4224c78aa20862511ae5f7272f9311e4811c /mm/Kconfig | |
| parent | 83050a4e21979fe1821916fce2fca36255569ed3 (diff) | |
| parent | 18558cae0272f8fd9647e69d3fec1565a7949865 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-1b79dff672ca09a5461cc1d46ad81c62137841c5.tar.gz lwn-1b79dff672ca09a5461cc1d46ad81c62137841c5.zip | |
Merge 4.5-rc4 into char-misc-next
We want those fixes in here as well.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Kconfig | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index 97a4e06b15c0..03cbfa072f42 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT bool config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT - bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kswapd" + bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" default n depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG @@ -633,9 +633,10 @@ config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel - when kswapd starts. This has a potential performance impact on - processes running early in the lifetime of the systemm until kswapd - finishes the initialisation. + by starting one-off "pgdatinitX" kernel thread for each node X. This + has a potential performance impact on processes running early in the + lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the + initialisation. config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING bool "Enable idle page tracking" |