From 0bd464447364f640ffea94a6bb072c71c901ab63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Morris Jette <jette@schedmd.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 08:30:09 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Improve documentation for bf_min_age_reserve config parameter

---
 doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5 | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5 b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
index 2c02a7c95be..cc752269b96 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
@@ -2449,14 +2449,16 @@ The default value is 0, which means no limit.
 This option applies only to \fBSchedulerType=sched/backfill\fR.
 .TP
 \fBbf_min_age_reserve=#\fR
-The backfill scheduler will not reserve resources for pending jobs until they
-have been pending and runnable for at least the specified number of seconds.
+The backfill and main scheduling logic will not reserve resources for pending
+jobs until they have been pending and runnable for at least the specified
+number of seconds.
 In addition, jobs waiting for less than the specified number of seconds will
 not prevent a newly submitted job from starting immediately, even if the newly
 submitted job has a lower priority.
 This can be valuable if jobs lack time limits or all time limits have the same
 value.
 The default value is zero, which will reserve resources for any pending job
+and delay initiation of lower priority jobs.
 .TP
 \fBbf_resolution=#\fR
 The number of seconds in the resolution of data maintained about when jobs
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