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From: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mhocko@suse.com,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com
Cc: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] docs: admin-guide: Remove threads-max auto-tuning
Date: Fri,  1 Nov 2019 13:04:38 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191101040438.6029-2-standby24x7@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191101040438.6029-1-standby24x7@gmail.com>

Since following path was merged in 5.4-rc3,
auto-tuning feature in threads-max was not exist any more.
Fix the admin-guide document as is.

kernel/sysctl.c: do not override max_threads provided by userspace
b0f53dbc4bc4c371f38b14c391095a3bb8a0bb40

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
index 38e0f10d7d9f..9035adbdff58 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
@@ -1109,10 +1109,6 @@ constant FUTEX_TID_MASK (0x3fffffff).
 If a value outside of this range is written to threads-max an error
 EINVAL occurs.
 
-The value written is checked against the available RAM pages. If the
-thread structures would occupy too much (more than 1/8th) of the
-available RAM pages threads-max is reduced accordingly.
-
 
 unknown_nmi_panic:
 ==================
-- 
2.24.0.rc1


  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-01  4:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-01  4:04 [PATCH 1/2] docs: admin-guide: Fix min value of threads-max in kernel.rst Masanari Iida
2019-11-01  4:04 ` Masanari Iida [this message]
2019-11-05  6:30   ` [PATCH 2/2] docs: admin-guide: Remove threads-max auto-tuning Michal Hocko
2019-11-05  6:30 ` [PATCH 1/2] docs: admin-guide: Fix min value of threads-max in kernel.rst Michal Hocko
2019-11-07 19:43 ` Jonathan Corbet

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