提交 24950898 编写于 作者: P Pavel Machek 提交者: Linus Torvalds

vm.txt: document min_free_pages as critical for correctness

min_free_pages is critical for correctness, document it as such.
Signed-off-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
上级 f4e87570
...@@ -112,6 +112,12 @@ of kilobytes free. The VM uses this number to compute a pages_min ...@@ -112,6 +112,12 @@ of kilobytes free. The VM uses this number to compute a pages_min
value for each lowmem zone in the system. Each lowmem zone gets value for each lowmem zone in the system. Each lowmem zone gets
a number of reserved free pages based proportionally on its size. a number of reserved free pages based proportionally on its size.
Some minimal ammount of memory is needed to satisfy PF_MEMALLOC
allocations; if you set this to lower than 1024KB, your system will
become subtly broken, and prone to deadlock under high loads.
Setting this too high will OOM your machine instantly.
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percpu_pagelist_fraction percpu_pagelist_fraction
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