Commit d04f9f5a authored by Mike Rapoport's avatar Mike Rapoport Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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docs/vm: balance: convert to ReST format 



Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Documentation/vm/balance

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Memory Balancing

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Started Jan 2000 by Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@sgi.com>



Memory balancing is needed for !__GFP_ATOMIC and !__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM as
@@ -89,6 +95,7 @@ pages is below watermark[WMARK_LOW]; in which case zone_wake_kswapd is also set. 




(Good) Ideas that I have heard:



1. Dynamic experience should influence balancing: number of failed requests

   for a zone can be tracked and fed into the balancing scheme (jalvo@mbay.net)

2. Implement a replace_with_highmem()-like replace_with_regular() to preserve