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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] Protect larger order pages from breaking up
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 10:02:53 -0800
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On 02/16/2018 08:01 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Control over this feature is by writing to /proc/zoneinfo.
> 
> F.e. to ensure that 2000 16K pages stay available for jumbo
> frames do
> 
> 	echo "2=2000" >/proc/zoneinfo
> 
> or through the order=<page spec> on the kernel command line.
> F.e.
> 
> 	order=2=2000,4N2=500


Please document the the kernel command line option in
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt.

I suppose that /proc/zoneinfo should be added somewhere in Documentation/vm/
but I'm not sure where that would be.

thanks,
-- 
~Randy

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