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    [PATCH] Add /proc/sys/vm/lower_zone_protection · c1859213
    Andrew Morton authored
    This allows us to control the aggressiveness of the lower-zone defense
    algorithm.  The `incremental min'.  For workloads which are using a
    serious amount of mlocked memory, a few megabytes is not enough.
    
    So the `lower_zone_protection' tunable allows the administrator to
    increase the amount of protection which lower zones receive against
    allocations which _could_ use higher zones.
    
    The default value of lower_zone_protection is zero, giving unchanged
    behaviour.  We should not normally make large amounts of memory
    unavailable for pagecache just in case someone mlocks many hundreds of
    megabytes.
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