[PATCH] doc: add information about max_ptes_swap
From: Ebru Akagunduz
Date: Thu Sep 17 2015 - 17:35:48 EST
max_ptes_swap specifies how many pages can be brought in from
swap when collapsing a group of pages into a transparent huge page.
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_swap
A higher value can cause excessive swap IO and waste
memory. A lower value can prevent THPs from being
collapsed, resulting fewer pages being collapsed into
THPs, and lower memory access performance.
Signed-off-by: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
index 8143b9e..8a28268 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
@@ -170,6 +170,16 @@ A lower value leads to gain less thp performance. Value of
max_ptes_none can waste cpu time very little, you can
ignore it.
+max_ptes_swap specifies how many pages can be brought in from
+swap when collapsing a group of pages into a transparent huge page.
+
+/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_swap
+
+A higher value can cause excessive swap IO and waste
+memory. A lower value can prevent THPs from being
+collapsed, resulting fewer pages being collapsed into
+THPs, and lower memory access performance.
+
== Boot parameter ==
You can change the sysfs boot time defaults of Transparent Hugepage
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