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Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 955fe35d01e0..b8be62381396 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -437,10 +437,17 @@ void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty) *pdirty = dirty; } -/* +/** * bdi_dirty_limit - @bdi's share of dirty throttling threshold + * @bdi: the backing_dev_info to query + * @dirty: global dirty limit in pages + * + * Returns @bdi's dirty limit in pages. The term "dirty" in the context of + * dirty balancing includes all PG_dirty, PG_writeback and NFS unstable pages. + * And the "limit" in the name is not seriously taken as hard limit in + * balance_dirty_pages(). * - * Allocate high/low dirty limits to fast/slow devices, in order to prevent + * It allocates high/low dirty limits to fast/slow devices, in order to prevent * - starving fast devices * - piling up dirty pages (that will take long time to sync) on slow devices * |