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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-05-02 22:14:21 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-05-02 22:14:21 -0400
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Three trivial overlapping conflicts. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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@@ -866,14 +866,14 @@ The intent is that compaction has less work to do in the future and to
increase the success rate of future high-order allocations such as SLUB
allocations, THP and hugetlbfs pages.
-To make it sensible with respect to the watermark_scale_factor parameter,
-the unit is in fractions of 10,000. The default value of 15,000 means
-that up to 150% of the high watermark will be reclaimed in the event of
-a pageblock being mixed due to fragmentation. The level of reclaim is
-determined by the number of fragmentation events that occurred in the
-recent past. If this value is smaller than a pageblock then a pageblocks
-worth of pages will be reclaimed (e.g. 2MB on 64-bit x86). A boost factor
-of 0 will disable the feature.
+To make it sensible with respect to the watermark_scale_factor
+parameter, the unit is in fractions of 10,000. The default value of
+15,000 on !DISCONTIGMEM configurations means that up to 150% of the high
+watermark will be reclaimed in the event of a pageblock being mixed due
+to fragmentation. The level of reclaim is determined by the number of
+fragmentation events that occurred in the recent past. If this value is
+smaller than a pageblock then a pageblocks worth of pages will be reclaimed
+(e.g. 2MB on 64-bit x86). A boost factor of 0 will disable the feature.
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