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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2012-08-24 16:25:10 +0200 |
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committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2012-08-24 16:25:10 +0200 |
commit | 79e8c7bebb467bbc3f2514d75bba669a3f354324 (patch) | |
tree | 5a07985daff3e50751ec40c51c4536d8f2284031 /Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | |
parent | Makefile: Add missing soc_camera/ directory (diff) | |
parent | Linux 3.6-rc3 (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'v3.6-rc3' into staging/for_v3.7
Linux 3.6-rc3
* tag 'v3.6-rc3': (764 commits)
Linux 3.6-rc3
task_work: add a scheduling point in task_work_run()
fs: fix fs/namei.c kernel-doc warnings
eventpoll: use-after-possible-free in epoll_create1()
vfio: grab vfio_device reference *before* exposing the sucker via fd_install()
vfio: get rid of vfio_device_put()/vfio_group_get_device* races
vfio: get rid of open-coding kref_put_mutex
introduce kref_put_mutex()
vfio: don't dereference after kfree...
fbcon: fix race condition between console lock and cursor timer (v1.1)
mm: compaction: Abort async compaction if locks are contended or taking too long
mm: have order > 0 compaction start near a pageblock with free pages
rapidio/tsi721: fix unused variable compiler warning
rapidio/tsi721: fix inbound doorbell interrupt handling
drivers/rtc/rtc-rs5c348.c: fix hour decoding in 12-hour mode
mm: correct page->pfmemalloc to fix deactivate_slab regression
drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf2123.c: initialize dynamic sysfs attributes
mm/compaction.c: fix deferring compaction mistake
drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c: SGI XPC fails to load when cpu 0 is out of IRQ resources
string: do not export memweight() to userspace
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index dcc2a94ae34e..078701fdbd4d 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ huge pages although processes will also directly compact memory as required. dirty_background_bytes -Contains the amount of dirty memory at which the pdflush background writeback -daemon will start writeback. +Contains the amount of dirty memory at which the background kernel +flusher threads will start writeback. Note: dirty_background_bytes is the counterpart of dirty_background_ratio. Only one of them may be specified at a time. When one sysctl is written it is @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ other appears as 0 when read. dirty_background_ratio Contains, as a percentage of total system memory, the number of pages at which -the pdflush background writeback daemon will start writing out dirty data. +the background kernel flusher threads will start writing out dirty data. ============================================================== @@ -112,9 +112,9 @@ retained. dirty_expire_centisecs This tunable is used to define when dirty data is old enough to be eligible -for writeout by the pdflush daemons. It is expressed in 100'ths of a second. -Data which has been dirty in-memory for longer than this interval will be -written out next time a pdflush daemon wakes up. +for writeout by the kernel flusher threads. It is expressed in 100'ths +of a second. Data which has been dirty in-memory for longer than this +interval will be written out next time a flusher thread wakes up. ============================================================== @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ data. dirty_writeback_centisecs -The pdflush writeback daemons will periodically wake up and write `old' data +The kernel flusher threads will periodically wake up and write `old' data out to disk. This tunable expresses the interval between those wakeups, in 100'ths of a second. |