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SubjectRe: man-pages text for MAV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE
Hi Andi,

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 02:22:33PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Just dropping the sentence or using soft language like "the kernel regularly
> attempts to merge pages"

Thanks. I reworded like as you suggest.

Cheers,

Michael


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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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