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Currently, the NX huge page recovery thread wakes up every minute and zaps 1/nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio of the total number of split NX huge pages at a time. This is intended to ensure that only a relatively small number of pages get zapped at a time. But for very large VMs (or more specifically, VMs with a large number of executable pages), a period of 1 minute could still result in this number being too high (unless the ratio is changed significantly, but that can result in split pages lingering on for too long). This change makes the period configurable instead of fixing it at 1 minute. Users of large VMs can then adjust the period and/or the ratio to reduce the number of pages zapped at one time while still maintaining the same overall duration for cycling through the entire list. By default, KVM derives a period from the ratio such that a page will remain on the list for 1 hour on average. Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com> Message-Id: <20211020010627.305925-1-junaids@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.