X-Git-Url: http://git.cascardo.eti.br/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=mm%2FKconfig;h=03cbfa072f42a7378ed57b8b1060641b31e7d97e;hb=8de1b23efaede0e355cba017992ab032e983c61c;hp=97a4e06b15c00dfd7f8b8bc0f1e1e4610b769938;hpb=f28a1b0df7adcc981e5ce5a5daf3d638dd019c0e;p=cascardo%2Flinux.git diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index 97a4e06b15c0..03cbfa072f42 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT bool config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT - bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kswapd" + bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kthreads" default n depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG @@ -633,9 +633,10 @@ config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel - when kswapd starts. This has a potential performance impact on - processes running early in the lifetime of the systemm until kswapd - finishes the initialisation. + by starting one-off "pgdatinitX" kernel thread for each node X. This + has a potential performance impact on processes running early in the + lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the + initialisation. config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING bool "Enable idle page tracking"