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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index ff234d229cbb..17256f2ad919 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -312,8 +312,6 @@ The lowmem_reserve_ratio is an array. You can see them by reading this file. % cat /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio 256 256 32 - -Note: # of this elements is one fewer than number of zones. Because the highest - zone's value is not necessary for following calculation. But, these values are not used directly. The kernel calculates # of protection pages for each zones from them. These are shown as array of protection pages @@ -364,7 +362,8 @@ As above expression, they are reciprocal number of ratio. pages of higher zones on the node. If you would like to protect more pages, smaller values are effective. -The minimum value is 1 (1/1 -> 100%). +The minimum value is 1 (1/1 -> 100%). The value less than 1 completely +disables protection of the pages. ============================================================== |