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| author | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2016-03-25 03:53:42 -0300 |
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| committer | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2016-03-25 03:53:42 -0300 |
| commit | 03dd4cb26d967f9588437b0fc9cc0e8353322bb7 (patch) | |
| tree | fa581f6dc1c0596391690d1f67eceef3af8246dc /mm/Kconfig | |
| parent | d4e493caf788ef44982e131ff9c786546904d934 (diff) | |
Linux-libre 4.5-gnu
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Kconfig | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index f45c93fed..1b1b681c9 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT bool config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT - bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kswapd" + bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" default n depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG @@ -659,9 +659,10 @@ config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel - when kswapd starts. This has a potential performance impact on - processes running early in the lifetime of the systemm until kswapd - finishes the initialisation. + by starting one-off "pgdatinitX" kernel thread for each node X. This + has a potential performance impact on processes running early in the + lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the + initialisation. config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING bool "Enable idle page tracking" |