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From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
	Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 02/32] docs/vm: balance: convert to ReST format
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:22:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1521660168-14372-3-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1521660168-14372-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 Documentation/vm/balance | 15 +++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/vm/balance b/Documentation/vm/balance
index 9645954..6a1fadf 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/balance
+++ b/Documentation/vm/balance
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+.. _balance:
+
+================
+Memory Balancing
+================
+
 Started Jan 2000 by Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@sgi.com>
 
 Memory balancing is needed for !__GFP_ATOMIC and !__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM as
@@ -62,11 +68,11 @@ for non-sleepable allocations. Second, the HIGHMEM zone is also balanced,
 so as to give a fighting chance for replace_with_highmem() to get a
 HIGHMEM page, as well as to ensure that HIGHMEM allocations do not
 fall back into regular zone. This also makes sure that HIGHMEM pages
-are not leaked (for example, in situations where a HIGHMEM page is in 
+are not leaked (for example, in situations where a HIGHMEM page is in
 the swapcache but is not being used by anyone)
 
 kswapd also needs to know about the zones it should balance. kswapd is
-primarily needed in a situation where balancing can not be done, 
+primarily needed in a situation where balancing can not be done,
 probably because all allocation requests are coming from intr context
 and all process contexts are sleeping. For 2.3, kswapd does not really
 need to balance the highmem zone, since intr context does not request
@@ -89,7 +95,8 @@ pages is below watermark[WMARK_LOW]; in which case zone_wake_kswapd is also set.
 
 
 (Good) Ideas that I have heard:
+
 1. Dynamic experience should influence balancing: number of failed requests
-for a zone can be tracked and fed into the balancing scheme (jalvo@mbay.net)
+   for a zone can be tracked and fed into the balancing scheme (jalvo@mbay.net)
 2. Implement a replace_with_highmem()-like replace_with_regular() to preserve
-dma pages. (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
+   dma pages. (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
-- 
2.7.4

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-21 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-21 19:22 [PATCH 00/32] docs/vm: convert to ReST format Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 01/32] docs/vm: active_mm.txt " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 03/32] docs/vm: cleancache.txt: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 04/32] docs/vm: frontswap.txt: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 05/32] docs/vm: highmem.txt: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 06/32] docs/vm: hmm.txt: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 07/32] docs/vm: hugetlbpage.txt: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 08/32] docs/vm: hugetlbfs_reserv.txt: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 09/32] docs/vm: hwpoison.txt: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 10/32] docs/vm: idle_page_tracking.txt: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 11/32] docs/vm: ksm.txt: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 12/32] docs/vm: mmu_notifier.txt: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 13/32] docs/vm: numa_memory_policy.txt: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 14/32] docs/vm: overcommit-accounting: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 15/32] docs/vm: page_frags " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 16/32] docs/vm: numa: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 17/32] docs/vm: pagemap.txt: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 18/32] docs/vm: page_migration: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 19/32] docs/vm: page_owner: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 20/32] docs/vm: remap_file_pages.txt: conert " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 21/32] docs/vm: slub.txt: convert " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 22/32] docs/vm: soft-dirty.txt: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 23/32] docs/vm: split_page_table_lock: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 24/32] docs/vm: swap_numa.txt: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 25/32] docs/vm: transhuge.txt: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 26/32] docs/vm: unevictable-lru.txt: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 27/32] docs/vm: userfaultfd.txt: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 28/32] docs/vm: z3fold.txt: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 29/32] docs/vm: zsmalloc.txt: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 30/32] docs/vm: zswap.txt: " Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 31/32] docs/vm: rename documentation files to .rst Mike Rapoport
2018-03-21 19:22 ` [PATCH 32/32] docs/vm: add index.rst and link MM documentation to top level index Mike Rapoport
2018-03-29 21:46 ` [PATCH 00/32] docs/vm: convert to ReST format Jonathan Corbet
2018-04-01  6:38   ` Mike Rapoport
2018-04-10 10:23     ` Mike Rapoport
2018-04-13 19:55     ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-04-13 20:21       ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-15 17:29         ` Mike Rapoport
2018-04-15 17:36       ` Mike Rapoport
2018-04-16 20:35         ` Jonathan Corbet

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