Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753265Ab3IEOl4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Sep 2013 10:41:56 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:55110 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752374Ab3IEOlz (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Sep 2013 10:41:55 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.90,847,1371106800"; d="scan'208";a="373942970" Message-ID: <52289824.20000@intel.com> Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 07:41:40 -0700 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130803 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerome Marchand CC: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] mm: allow to set overcommit ratio more precisely References: <1376925478-15506-1-git-send-email-jmarchan@redhat.com> <1376925478-15506-2-git-send-email-jmarchan@redhat.com> <52287E66.9010107@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <52287E66.9010107@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 703 Lines: 14 On 09/05/2013 05:51 AM, Jerome Marchand wrote: > This patch adds the new overcommit_ratio_ppm sysctl variable that > allow to set overcommit ratio with a part per million precision. > The old overcommit_ratio variable can still be used to set and read > the ratio with a 1% precision. That way, overcommit_ratio interface > isn't broken in any way that I can imagine. Looks like a pretty sane solution. Could you also make a Documentation/ update, please? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/