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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 3e579740b49f..055c8b3e1018 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - percpu_pagelist_fraction - stat_interval - stat_refresh +- numa_stat - swappiness - user_reserve_kbytes - vfs_cache_pressure @@ -799,6 +800,21 @@ with no ill effects: errors and warnings on these stats are suppressed.) ============================================================== +numa_stat + +This interface allows runtime configuration of numa statistics. + +When page allocation performance becomes a bottleneck and you can tolerate +some possible tool breakage and decreased numa counter precision, you can +do: + echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/numa_stat + +When page allocation performance is not a bottleneck and you want all +tooling to work, you can do: + echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/numa_stat + +============================================================== + swappiness This control is used to define how aggressive the kernel will swap |