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