Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Kerrisk <> | Date | Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:38:42 +0200 | Subject | Re: man-pages text for MAV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE |
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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
-- 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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