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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 9c3f2f8054b5..a4482fceacec 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ zone[i]'s protection[j] is calculated by following expression. (i < j): zone[i]->protection[j] - = (total sums of present_pages from zone[i+1] to zone[j] on the node) + = (total sums of managed_pages from zone[i+1] to zone[j] on the node) / lowmem_reserve_ratio[i]; (i = j): (should not be protected. = 0; @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ The default values of lowmem_reserve_ratio[i] are 256 (if zone[i] means DMA or DMA32 zone) 32 (others). As above expression, they are reciprocal number of ratio. -256 means 1/256. # of protection pages becomes about "0.39%" of total present +256 means 1/256. # of protection pages becomes about "0.39%" of total managed pages of higher zones on the node. If you would like to protect more pages, smaller values are effective. |