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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt | 28 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/net.txt | 15 |
3 files changed, 45 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt index 819caf8ca05f..ebc679bcb2dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt @@ -56,26 +56,34 @@ of any kernel data structures. dentry-state: -From linux/fs/dentry.c: +From linux/include/linux/dcache.h: -------------------------------------------------------------- -struct { +struct dentry_stat_t dentry_stat { int nr_dentry; int nr_unused; int age_limit; /* age in seconds */ int want_pages; /* pages requested by system */ - int dummy[2]; -} dentry_stat = {0, 0, 45, 0,}; --------------------------------------------------------------- - -Dentries are dynamically allocated and deallocated, and -nr_dentry seems to be 0 all the time. Hence it's safe to -assume that only nr_unused, age_limit and want_pages are -used. Nr_unused seems to be exactly what its name says. + int nr_negative; /* # of unused negative dentries */ + int dummy; /* Reserved for future use */ +}; +-------------------------------------------------------------- + +Dentries are dynamically allocated and deallocated. + +nr_dentry shows the total number of dentries allocated (active ++ unused). nr_unused shows the number of dentries that are not +actively used, but are saved in the LRU list for future reuse. + Age_limit is the age in seconds after which dcache entries can be reclaimed when memory is short and want_pages is nonzero when shrink_dcache_pages() has been called and the dcache isn't pruned yet. +nr_negative shows the number of unused dentries that are also +negative dentries which do not map to any files. Instead, +they help speeding up rejection of non-existing files provided +by the users. + ============================================================== dquot-max & dquot-nr: diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 7a5165ee4280..aa058aa7bf28 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - reboot-cmd [ SPARC only ] - rtsig-max - rtsig-nr +- sched_energy_aware - seccomp/ ==> Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst - sem - sem_next_id [ sysv ipc ] @@ -890,6 +891,17 @@ rtsig-nr shows the number of RT signals currently queued. ============================================================== +sched_energy_aware: + +Enables/disables Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS). EAS starts +automatically on platforms where it can run (that is, +platforms with asymmetric CPU topologies and having an Energy +Model available). If your platform happens to meet the +requirements for EAS but you do not want to use it, change +this value to 0. + +============================================================== + sched_schedstats: Enables/disables scheduler statistics. Enabling this feature diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt index 2793d4eac55f..2ae91d3873bb 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ two flavors of JITs, the newer eBPF JIT currently supported on: - sparc64 - mips64 - s390x + - riscv And the older cBPF JIT supported on the following archs: - mips @@ -291,6 +292,20 @@ user space is responsible for creating them if needed. Default : 0 (for compatibility reasons) +devconf_inherit_init_net +---------------------------- + +Controls if a new network namespace should inherit all current +settings under /proc/sys/net/{ipv4,ipv6}/conf/{all,default}/. By +default, we keep the current behavior: for IPv4 we inherit all current +settings from init_net and for IPv6 we reset all settings to default. + +If set to 1, both IPv4 and IPv6 settings are forced to inherit from +current ones in init_net. If set to 2, both IPv4 and IPv6 settings are +forced to reset to their default values. + +Default : 0 (for compatibility reasons) + 2. /proc/sys/net/unix - Parameters for Unix domain sockets ------------------------------------------------------- |