docs: admin-guide: Remove threads-max auto-tuning
authorMasanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Fri, 1 Nov 2019 04:04:38 +0000 (13:04 +0900)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Thu, 7 Nov 2019 20:17:25 +0000 (13:17 -0700)
Since following path was merged in 5.4-rc3,
auto-tuning feature in threads-max does not exist any more.
Fix the admin-guide document as is.

kernel/sysctl.c: do not override max_threads provided by userspace
b0f53dbc4bc4c371f38b14c391095a3bb8a0bb40

Fixes: b0f53dbc4bc4 ("kernel/sysctl.c: do not override max_threads provided by userspace")
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst

index 17a9daf..def0748 100644 (file)
@@ -1111,10 +1111,6 @@ constant FUTEX_TID_MASK (0x3fffffff).
 If a value outside of this range is written to threads-max an error
 EINVAL occurs.
 
-The value written is checked against the available RAM pages. If the
-thread structures would occupy too much (more than 1/8th) of the
-available RAM pages threads-max is reduced accordingly.
-
 
 unknown_nmi_panic:
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