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authorLiao Pingfang <winndows@163.com>2020-12-27 15:15:19 +0800
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2020-12-31 15:47:34 -0700
commitc7e74b3c7b1cf4c04164ff16e6c047232fd3bcef (patch)
tree6dc88f2f4cd5948dbbc6b69f618b71ddb8c376a7 /Documentation
parent81e79063004f32aae5196f0c929192e69aca1694 (diff)
docs/mm: concepts.rst: Correct the threshold to low watermark
It should be "low watermark" where we wake up kswapd daemon. Signed-off-by: Liao Pingfang <winndows@163.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1609053319-3112-1-git-send-email-winndows@163.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ pages either asynchronously or synchronously, depending on the state
of the system. When the system is not loaded, most of the memory is free
and allocation requests will be satisfied immediately from the free
pages supply. As the load increases, the amount of the free pages goes
-down and when it reaches a certain threshold (high watermark), an
+down and when it reaches a certain threshold (low watermark), an
allocation request will awaken the ``kswapd`` daemon. It will
asynchronously scan memory pages and either just free them if the data
they contain is available elsewhere, or evict to the backing storage