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@@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ compaction_proactiveness
 
 This tunable takes a value in the range [0, 100] with a default value of
 20. This tunable determines how aggressively compaction is done in the
-background. Setting it to 0 disables proactive compaction.
+background. Write of a non zero value to this tunable will immediately
+trigger the proactive compaction. Setting it to 0 disables proactive compaction.
 
 Note that compaction has a non-trivial system-wide impact as pages
 belonging to different processes are moved around, which could also lead