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| author | Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> | 2010-05-25 01:32:29 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-05-25 19:06:59 +0400 |
| commit | ed4a6d7f0676db50b5023cc01f6cda82a2f2a307 (patch) | |
| tree | 6496343ba964e105cf30f8703714471f22edc806 /Documentation | |
| parent | 76ab0f530e4a01d4dc20cdc1d5e87753c579dc18 (diff) | |
| download | linux-ed4a6d7f0676db50b5023cc01f6cda82a2f2a307.tar.xz | |
mm: compaction: add /sys trigger for per-node memory compaction
Add a per-node sysfs file called compact. When the file is written to,
each zone in that node is compacted. The intention that this would be
used by something like a job scheduler in a batch system before a job
starts so that the job can allocate the maximum number of hugepages
without significant start-up cost.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-node | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-node b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-node new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..453a210c3ceb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-node @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/compact +Date: February 2010 +Contact: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> +Description: + When this file is written to, all memory within that node + will be compacted. When it completes, memory will be freed + into blocks which have as many contiguous pages as possible |