Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Kerrisk <> | Date | Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:22:33 +0200 | Subject | Re: man-pages text for MAV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE |
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Hi Andi,
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: >> +.IR len . >> +The KSM daemon >> +.RI ( ksmd ) > > You should probably make clear it's a kernel thread, not a classic > daemon.
Thanks. I changed it to "KSM kernel thread"
>> +periodically scans those areas of user memory that have >> +been marked as mergeable, >> +looking for pages with identical content. > > Overall it seems like an internal implementation detail.
Not sure how I could improve this. Did you have some specific idea in mind?
Thanks,
Michael
-- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/
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