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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst2
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c3
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
index 5e795202111f..f4804ce37c58 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
@@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ how much memory needs to be free before kswapd goes back to sleep.
The unit is in fractions of 10,000. The default value of 10 means the
distances between watermarks are 0.1% of the available memory in the
-node/system. The maximum value is 1000, or 10% of memory.
+node/system. The maximum value is 3000, or 30% of memory.
A high rate of threads entering direct reclaim (allocstall) or kswapd
going to sleep prematurely (kswapd_low_wmark_hit_quickly) can indicate
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 083be6af29d7..2ab4edb6e450 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ static unsigned long long_max = LONG_MAX;
static int one_hundred = 100;
static int two_hundred = 200;
static int one_thousand = 1000;
+static int three_thousand = 3000;
#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
static int ten_thousand = 10000;
#endif
@@ -2959,7 +2960,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = watermark_scale_factor_sysctl_handler,
.extra1 = SYSCTL_ONE,
- .extra2 = &one_thousand,
+ .extra2 = &three_thousand,
},
{
.procname = "percpu_pagelist_high_fraction",