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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-08-30 00:54:02 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-08-30 00:54:02 -0400 |
| commit | 6abdd5f5935fff978f950561f3c5175eb34dad73 (patch) | |
| tree | 6f3ed3a4f4af9e74436ec9355ebf8201357f1c40 /mm/Kconfig | |
| parent | 0b498a52778368ff501557d68c7b50878ab1701e (diff) | |
| parent | e4e98c460ad38c78498622a164fd5ef09a2dc9cb (diff) | |
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
All three conflicts were cases of simple overlapping
changes.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index 78a23c5c302d..be0ee11fa0d9 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -262,7 +262,14 @@ config COMPACTION select MIGRATION depends on MMU help - Allows the compaction of memory for the allocation of huge pages. + Compaction is the only memory management component to form + high order (larger physically contiguous) memory blocks + reliably. The page allocator relies on compaction heavily and + the lack of the feature can lead to unexpected OOM killer + invocations for high order memory requests. You shouldn't + disable this option unless there really is a strong reason for + it and then we would be really interested to hear about that at + linux-mm@kvack.org. # # support for page migration |