mm: document highmem_is_dirtyable sysctl
It seems that there are still people using 32b kernels which a lot of memory and the IO tend to suck a lot for them by default. Mostly because writers are throttled too when the lowmem is used. We have highmem_is_dirtyable to work around that issue but it seems we never bothered to document it. Let's do it now, finally. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170626093200.18958-1-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Alkis Georgopoulos <alkisg@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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highmem_is_dirtyable
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Available only for systems with CONFIG_HIGHMEM enabled (32b systems).
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This parameter controls whether the high memory is considered for dirty
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writers throttling. This is not the case by default which means that
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only the amount of memory directly visible/usable by the kernel can
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be dirtied. As a result, on systems with a large amount of memory and
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lowmem basically depleted writers might be throttled too early and
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streaming writes can get very slow.
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Changing the value to non zero would allow more memory to be dirtied
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and thus allow writers to write more data which can be flushed to the
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storage more effectively. Note this also comes with a risk of pre-mature
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OOM killer because some writers (e.g. direct block device writes) can
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only use the low memory and they can fill it up with dirty data without
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any throttling.
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hugepages_treat_as_movable
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This parameter controls whether we can allocate hugepages from ZONE_MOVABLE
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