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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-02-23 08:09:14 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-02-23 08:09:14 +0300
commitb633353115e352d3c31c12d4c61978c810f05ea1 (patch)
tree055174a1b31a3e10fd2c505788fe6487b0028d00 /mm/Kconfig
parentb1d95ae5c5bd3deba84d00c4f83d7d0836b5936f (diff)
parentdea08e604408d0303e2332896c5fdd8c1f7d79a2 (diff)
downloadlinux-b633353115e352d3c31c12d4c61978c810f05ea1.tar.xz
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts: drivers/net/phy/bcm7xxx.c drivers/net/phy/marvell.c drivers/net/vxlan.c All three conflicts were cases of simple overlapping changes. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/Kconfig')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 97a4e06b15c0..03cbfa072f42 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
bool
config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
- bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kswapd"
+ bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads"
default n
depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
@@ -633,9 +633,10 @@ config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable
amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up
a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel
- when kswapd starts. This has a potential performance impact on
- processes running early in the lifetime of the systemm until kswapd
- finishes the initialisation.
+ by starting one-off "pgdatinitX" kernel thread for each node X. This
+ has a potential performance impact on processes running early in the
+ lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the
+ initialisation.
config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING
bool "Enable idle page tracking"