Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:52:56 -0700 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [RESEND][PATCH] docs/mm: concepts.rst: Correct the threshold to low watermark |
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On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 11:17:12 +0800 Yi Wang <wang.yi59@zte.com.cn> wrote:
> From: Liao Pingfang <liao.pingfang@zte.com.cn> > > Actually it should be "low watermark" where we wake up kswapd > daemon. > > Signed-off-by: Liao Pingfang <liao.pingfang@zte.com.cn> > Signed-off-by: Yi Wang <wang.yi59@zte.com.cn> > --- > Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst > index fa0974f..b966fcf 100644 > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst > @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ pages either asynchronously or synchronously, depending on the state > of the system. When the system is not loaded, most of the memory is free > and allocation requests will be satisfied immediately from the free > pages supply. As the load increases, the amount of the free pages goes > -down and when it reaches a certain threshold (high watermark), an > +down and when it reaches a certain threshold (low watermark), an > allocation request will awaken the ``kswapd`` daemon. It will > asynchronously scan memory pages and either just free them if the data > they contain is available elsewhere, or evict to the backing storage
This patch still has not made it onto the public mailing lists. I don't know what the problem is with your mail setup, but until you can post the patch publicly I cannot apply it.
When you do work that problem out, please add the linux-mm list like I asked you to last time.
Thanks,
jon
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