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| author | Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> | 2007-12-17 16:20:25 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-12-17 19:28:17 -0800 |
| commit | d5dbac87b4343d98ae509fb787efb77f8ddc484b (patch) | |
| tree | 5a3cd992275cd754724b7450ec34cea6fa241f6e /Documentation/sysctl | |
| parent | 368d2c6358c3c62b3820a8a73f9fe9c8b540cdea (diff) | |
| download | lwn-d5dbac87b4343d98ae509fb787efb77f8ddc484b.tar.gz lwn-d5dbac87b4343d98ae509fb787efb77f8ddc484b.zip | |
Documentation: update hugetlb information
The hugetlb documentation has gotten a bit out of sync with the current code.
Updated the sysctl file to refer to Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt. Update
that file to contain the current state of affairs (with the newer named sysctl
in place).
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index b89570c30434..6f31f0a247d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - oom_kill_allocating_task - mmap_min_address - numa_zonelist_order +- nr_hugepages +- nr_overcommit_hugepages ============================================================== @@ -305,3 +307,20 @@ will select "node" order in following case. Otherwise, "zone" order will be selected. Default order is recommended unless this is causing problems for your system/application. + +============================================================== + +nr_hugepages + +Change the minimum size of the hugepage pool. + +See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt + +============================================================== + +nr_overcommit_hugepages + +Change the maximum size of the hugepage pool. The maximum is +nr_hugepages + nr_overcommit_hugepages. + +See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt |