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Message-ID: <AANLkTil8umNYwlc1FUZJaGv2ObTLG37rHEmIgxfJAUqB@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:11:23 -0700 From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com> To: mtk.manpages@...il.com Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-man <linux-man@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: man-pages text for MAV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com> wrote: >> On Sat, 19 Jun 2010, Michael Kerrisk wrote: >>> +The KSM daemon >>> +.RI ( ksmd ) >>> +periodically scans those areas of user memory that have >>> +been marked as mergeable, >>> +looking for pages with identical content. >> >> I was rather puzzled by Andi calling that an internal implementation >> detail. Okay, I suppose the "KSM daemon periodically scans" is an >> internal implementation detail, though I think it helps to warn the >> programmer of the overhead of MADV_MERGEABLE; but without "pages >> with identical content", aren't we left mystified as to just what >> this "merging" is all about? > > I agree. All I had changed was to remove mention of the KSM daemon -- > I just say "the kernel". Great, that's just right: thanks. Hugh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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