Commit e369fde1 authored by David Rientjes's avatar David Rientjes Committed by Linus Torvalds

thp: fix khugepaged defrag tunable documentation

Commit e27e6151 ("mm/thp: use conventional format for boolean
attributes") changed

  /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag

to be tuned by using 1 (enabled) or 0 (disabled) instead of "yes" and
"no", respectively.

Update the documentation.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent a7f4d00a
......@@ -123,10 +123,11 @@ be automatically shutdown if it's set to "never".
khugepaged runs usually at low frequency so while one may not want to
invoke defrag algorithms synchronously during the page faults, it
should be worth invoking defrag at least in khugepaged. However it's
also possible to disable defrag in khugepaged:
also possible to disable defrag in khugepaged by writing 0 or enable
defrag in khugepaged by writing 1:
echo yes >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag
echo no >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag
echo 0 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag
echo 1 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag
You can also control how many pages khugepaged should scan at each
pass:
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