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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-10-06 12:48:57 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-10-06 12:49:21 +0200
commit9d014020234525ae100879d71078a4bcb4849195 (patch)
treea0d6c0776670cb876e5a8118a4e6ed28d8f51cbc /Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
parent92e51938f5d005026ba4bb5b1fae5a86dc195b86 (diff)
parent976d167615b64e14bc1491ca51d424e2ba9a5e84 (diff)
Merge commit 'v3.1-rc9' into perf/core
Merge reason: pick up latest fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@@ -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: