Nick Piggin [off-list ref] wrote:

It allows two scans at the two lowest priorities before breaking out or
 doing a blk_congestion_wait, for both try_to_free_pages and balance_pgdat.

This seems to be fairly equivalent to simply subtracting one from
DEF_PRIORITY.
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