Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wirel...

[pandora-kernel.git] / Documentation / sysctl / vm.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index 56dd29b..5fdbb61 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
 - dirty_ratio
 - dirty_writeback_centisecs
 - drop_caches
+- extfrag_threshold
 - hugepages_treat_as_movable
 - hugetlb_shm_group
 - laptop_mode
@@ -149,6 +150,20 @@ user should run `sync' first.
 
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+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.
+
+The kernel will not compact memory in a zone if the
+fragmentation index is <= extfrag_threshold. The default value is 500.
+
+==============================================================
+
 hugepages_treat_as_movable
 
 This parameter is only useful when kernelcore= is specified at boot time to