From c7e74b3c7b1cf4c04164ff16e6c047232fd3bcef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Liao Pingfang Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 15:15:19 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1609053319-3112-1-git-send-email-winndows@163.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst index fa0974f..b966fcf 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst @@ -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 -- 2.7.4