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| author | Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> | 2016-02-05 15:36:21 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-02-05 18:10:40 -0800 |
| commit | 1ce221036b83288358d8d5d5ff1784657b3ab4e9 (patch) | |
| tree | a7af889f2106a42ae68cae72734f9755da1e6ba7 /mm/Kconfig | |
| parent | 1f1ffb8a151e8c59899c78019f76cb8f64be13f5 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-1ce221036b83288358d8d5d5ff1784657b3ab4e9.tar.gz lwn-1ce221036b83288358d8d5d5ff1784657b3ab4e9.zip | |
mm/Kconfig: correct description of DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
The description mentions kswapd threads, while the deferred struct page
initialization is actually done by one-off "pgdatinitX" threads.
Fix the description so that potentially users are not confused about
pgdatinit threads using CPU after boot instead of kswapd.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.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" |