Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:28:30 +0000 | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 10/12] Add /sys trigger for per-node memory compaction |
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On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 06:53:59AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 06:02:40PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: > > This patch adds 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. > > As you are adding sysfs files, can you please also add documentation for > the file in Documentation/ABI/ ? >
I looked at this before and hit a wall and then forgot about it. I couldn't find *where* I should document it at the time. There isn't a sysfs-devices-node file to add to and much (all?) of what is in that branch appears undocumented.
-- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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