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docs/vm: balance: convert to ReST format 

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Mike Rapoport 2018-03-21 21:22:18 +02:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
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.. _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
@ -89,7 +95,8 @@ 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)
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
dma pages. (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
dma pages. (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)