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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-05-12 12:17:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-05-12 12:17:36 +0200 |
| commit | 6cda3eb62ef42aa5acd649bf99c8db544e0f4051 (patch) | |
| tree | 93f74ca002f5756c8e157611174f9540b5cf41c0 /Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | |
| parent | b9c61b70075c87a8612624736faf4a2de5b1ed30 (diff) | |
| parent | cec6be6d1069d697beb490bbb40a290d5ff554a2 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'x86/apic' into irq/numa
Merge reason: both topics modify the APIC code but were able to do it in
parallel so far. An upcoming patch generates a conflict so
merge them to avoid the conflict.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 97c4b328432..b716d33912d 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ will itself start writeback. If dirty_bytes is written, dirty_ratio becomes a function of its value (dirty_bytes / the amount of dirtyable system memory). +Note: the minimum value allowed for dirty_bytes is two pages (in bytes); any +value lower than this limit will be ignored and the old configuration will be +retained. + ============================================================== dirty_expire_centisecs |