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Andrew Morton authored
From: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com> This resurrects the old /proc/sys/vm/free_pages functionality: the ability to tell page reclaim how much free memory to maintain. This may be needed for specialised networking applications, and it provides an interesting way to stress the kernel: set it very low so atomic allocations can easily fail. Also, a 16G ppc64 box currently cruises along at 1M free memory, which is surely too little to supporthigh-speed networking. We have not changed that setting here, but it is now possible to do so. The patch also reduces the amount of free memory which the VM will maintain in ZONE_HIGHMEM, as it is almost always wasted memory.
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