diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 4ab1187..49f47258 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@
 extern unsigned int core_pipe_limit;
 extern int pid_max;
 extern int min_free_kbytes;
+extern int min_free_order_shift;
 extern int pid_max_min, pid_max_max;
 extern int sysctl_drop_caches;
 extern int percpu_pagelist_fraction;
@@ -1199,6 +1200,13 @@
 		.extra1		= &zero,
 	},
 	{
+		.procname	= "min_free_order_shift",
+		.data		= &min_free_order_shift,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(min_free_order_shift),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec
+	},
+	{
 		.procname	= "percpu_pagelist_fraction",
 		.data		= &percpu_pagelist_fraction,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(percpu_pagelist_fraction),
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index a712fb9..dbd52e2 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@
 };
 
 int min_free_kbytes = 1024;
+int min_free_order_shift = 1;
 
 static unsigned long __meminitdata nr_kernel_pages;
 static unsigned long __meminitdata nr_all_pages;
@@ -1565,7 +1566,7 @@
 		free_pages -= z->free_area[o].nr_free << o;
 
 		/* Require fewer higher order pages to be free */
-		min >>= 1;
+		min >>= min_free_order_shift;
 
 		if (free_pages <= min)
 			return false;