ref-manual: document ZSTD_COMPRESSION_LEVEL

(From yocto-docs rev: ca3cbe1bac3261fd01aeb1afdca98fbe283e9ac7)

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

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       memory and become problematic with parallelism elsewhere in the build.
       "50%" has been found to be a good value.
 
+   :term:`ZSTD_COMPRESSION_LEVEL`
+      Specifies the compression level to be used with ZStandard compression
+      (from ``1`` to ``19``, set to ``3`` by default, following upstream choice).
+      Higher levels produce smaller files, but take longer to complete.
+
    :term:`ZSTD_THREADS`
       Specifies the number of parallel threads that should be used when
       using ZStandard compression.