diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
index 9c321c7ddc18..c7d82184fae0 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
@@ -970,7 +970,7 @@ how much memory needs to be free before kswapd goes back to sleep.
 
 The unit is in fractions of 10,000. The default value of 10 means the
 distances between watermarks are 0.1% of the available memory in the
-node/system. The maximum value is 1000, or 10% of memory.
+node/system. The maximum value is 3000, or 30% of memory.
 
 A high rate of threads entering direct reclaim (allocstall) or kswapd
 going to sleep prematurely (kswapd_low_wmark_hit_quickly) can indicate
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index b4eeaaaeaa65..2c3bf3b197fa 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ static unsigned long long_max = LONG_MAX;
 static int one_hundred = 100;
 static int two_hundred = 200;
 static int one_thousand = 1000;
+static int three_thousand = 3000;
 #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
 static int ten_thousand = 10000;
 #endif
@@ -2904,7 +2905,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= watermark_scale_factor_sysctl_handler,
 		.extra1		= SYSCTL_ONE,
-		.extra2		= &one_thousand,
+		.extra2		= &three_thousand,
 	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "percpu_pagelist_fraction",