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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index b4ad97f10b8e..48244c42ff52 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -240,6 +240,26 @@ fragmentation index is <= extfrag_threshold. The default value is 500. ============================================================== +highmem_is_dirtyable + +Available only for systems with CONFIG_HIGHMEM enabled (32b systems). + +This parameter controls whether the high memory is considered for dirty +writers throttling. This is not the case by default which means that +only the amount of memory directly visible/usable by the kernel can +be dirtied. As a result, on systems with a large amount of memory and +lowmem basically depleted writers might be throttled too early and +streaming writes can get very slow. + +Changing the value to non zero would allow more memory to be dirtied +and thus allow writers to write more data which can be flushed to the +storage more effectively. Note this also comes with a risk of pre-mature +OOM killer because some writers (e.g. direct block device writes) can +only use the low memory and they can fill it up with dirty data without +any throttling. + +============================================================== + hugepages_treat_as_movable This parameter controls whether we can allocate hugepages from ZONE_MOVABLE |