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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
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