linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: Update shuffle documentation to match its current state

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Message-ID: <874jbqtwcc.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:05:39 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Maíra Canal <mcanal@...lia.com>, Andrew Morton
 <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>, Tejun
 Heo <tj@...nel.org>, David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, Wei Yang
 <richard.weiyang@...ux.alibaba.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
 Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
 Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>, Mel Gorman
 <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-mm@...ck.org, kernel-dev@...lia.com, Maíra Canal
 <mcanal@...lia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Update shuffle documentation to match its current
 state

Maíra Canal <mcanal@...lia.com> writes:

> Commit 839195352d82 ("mm/shuffle: remove dynamic reconfiguration")
> removed the dynamic reconfiguration capabilities from the shuffle page
> allocator. This means that, now, we don't have any perspective of an
> "autodetection of memory-side-cache" that triggers the enablement of the
> shuffle page allocator.
>
> Therefore, let the documentation reflect that the only way to enable
> the shuffle page allocator is by setting `page_alloc.shuffle=1`.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maíra Canal <mcanal@...lia.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 10 ++++------
>  mm/Kconfig                                      |  7 +++----
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

jon