The patch titled Subject: mm-compaction-support-triggering-of-proactive-compaction-by-user-fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-compaction-support-triggering-of-proactive-compaction-by-user-fix.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-compaction-support-triggering-of-proactive-compaction-by-user-fix.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-compaction-support-triggering-of-proactive-compaction-by-user-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm-compaction-support-triggering-of-proactive-compaction-by-user-fix tweak vm.rst, per Mike Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nitin Gupta <nigupta@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst~mm-compaction-support-triggering-of-proactive-compaction-by-user-fix +++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ compaction_proactiveness This tunable takes a value in the range [0, 100] with a default value of 20. This tunable determines how aggressively compaction is done in the -background. On write of non zero value to this tunable will immediately +background. Write of a non zero value to this tunable will immediately trigger the proactive compaction. Setting it to 0 disables proactive compaction. Note that compaction has a non-trivial system-wide impact as pages _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm.patch lazy-tlb-allow-lazy-tlb-mm-refcounting-to-be-configurable-fix.patch mm-compaction-optimize-proactive-compaction-deferrals-fix.patch mm-compaction-support-triggering-of-proactive-compaction-by-user-fix.patch mm-hugetlb-add-support-for-mempolicy-mpol_preferred_many-fix.patch mm-mempolicy-convert-from-atomic_t-to-refcount_t-on-mempolicy-refcnt-fix.patch linux-next-rejects.patch linux-next-git-rejects.patch kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch