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