Re: [PATCH 1/7] ksm: add some comments

2013-02-22 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Ric Mason wrote: > > What's the root reason merge_across_nodes setting just can be changed only > when there are no ksm shared pages in system? Simplicity. Why add code (moving nodes from tree to tree, handling the collisions) for a rare case that doesn't need to be fast? >

Re: [PATCH 1/7] ksm: add some comments

2013-02-21 Thread Ric Mason
On 02/21/2013 04:19 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote: Added slightly more detail to the Documentation of merge_across_nodes, a few comments in areas indicated by review, and renamed get_ksm_page()'s argument from "locked" to "lock_it". No functional change. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins --- Documentatio

[PATCH 1/7] ksm: add some comments

2013-02-21 Thread Hugh Dickins
Added slightly more detail to the Documentation of merge_across_nodes, a few comments in areas indicated by review, and renamed get_ksm_page()'s argument from "locked" to "lock_it". No functional change. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins --- Documentation/vm/ksm.txt | 16 mm/ksm.c