From e369fde1af20c7c67acff3bc4a36e451f38ae7d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rientjes Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:11:38 -0700 Subject: thp: fix khugepaged defrag tunable documentation Commit e27e6151b154 ("mm/thp: use conventional format for boolean attributes") changed /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag to be tuned by using 1 (enabled) or 0 (disabled) instead of "yes" and "no", respectively. Update the documentation. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt index 0924aaca3302..29bdf62aac09 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt @@ -123,10 +123,11 @@ be automatically shutdown if it's set to "never". khugepaged runs usually at low frequency so while one may not want to invoke defrag algorithms synchronously during the page faults, it should be worth invoking defrag at least in khugepaged. However it's -also possible to disable defrag in khugepaged: +also possible to disable defrag in khugepaged by writing 0 or enable +defrag in khugepaged by writing 1: -echo yes >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag -echo no >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag +echo 0 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag +echo 1 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag You can also control how many pages khugepaged should scan at each pass: -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b