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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 10 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 9832ec52f859..9c3f2f8054b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -225,11 +225,11 @@ with your system. To disable them, echo 4 (bit 3) into drop_caches. extfrag_threshold This parameter affects whether the kernel will compact memory or direct -reclaim to satisfy a high-order allocation. /proc/extfrag_index shows what -the fragmentation index for each order is in each zone in the system. Values -tending towards 0 imply allocations would fail due to lack of memory, -values towards 1000 imply failures are due to fragmentation and -1 implies -that the allocation will succeed as long as watermarks are met. +reclaim to satisfy a high-order allocation. The extfrag/extfrag_index file in +debugfs shows what the fragmentation index for each order is in each zone in +the system. Values tending towards 0 imply allocations would fail due to lack +of memory, values towards 1000 imply failures are due to fragmentation and -1 +implies that the allocation will succeed as long as watermarks are met. The kernel will not compact memory in a zone if the fragmentation index is <= extfrag_threshold. The default value is 500. |