Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git...

[karo-tx-linux.git] / Documentation / kernel-parameters.txt

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@@ -3089,9 +3089,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                        cache-to-cache transfer latencies.
 
        rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
-                       Increase the number of CPUs assigned to each
-                       leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very large
-                       systems.
+                       Change the number of CPUs assigned to each
+                       leaf rcu_node structure.  Useful for very
+                       large systems, which will choose the value 64,
+                       and for NUMA systems with large remote-access
+                       latencies, which will choose a value aligned
+                       with the appropriate hardware boundaries.
 
        rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs= [KNL]
                        Set required age in jiffies for a