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authorJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-09-23 13:37:09 -0400
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-09-25 12:08:25 -0400
commit5b0830cb9085f4b69f9d57d7f3aaff322ffbec26 (patch)
tree10040eb359269d4cd05487790b758144a69e8e39 /mm/page-writeback.c
parent71fd05a887e0f3f6bfff76ff81b33776177d0606 (diff)
writeback: get rid to incorrect references to pdflush in comments
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 3c78fc31620..8bef063125b 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ static inline long sync_writeback_pages(unsigned long dirtied)
58/* The following parameters are exported via /proc/sys/vm */ 58/* The following parameters are exported via /proc/sys/vm */
59 59
60/* 60/*
61 * Start background writeback (via pdflush) at this percentage 61 * Start background writeback (via writeback threads) at this percentage
62 */ 62 */
63int dirty_background_ratio = 10; 63int dirty_background_ratio = 10;
64 64
@@ -477,8 +477,8 @@ get_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty,
477 * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty 477 * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty
478 * data. It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force 478 * data. It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force
479 * the caller to perform writeback if the system is over `vm_dirty_ratio'. 479 * the caller to perform writeback if the system is over `vm_dirty_ratio'.
480 * If we're over `background_thresh' then pdflush is woken to perform some 480 * If we're over `background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to
481 * writeout. 481 * perform some writeout.
482 */ 482 */
483static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, 483static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
484 unsigned long write_chunk) 484 unsigned long write_chunk)
@@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
582 bdi->dirty_exceeded = 0; 582 bdi->dirty_exceeded = 0;
583 583
584 if (writeback_in_progress(bdi)) 584 if (writeback_in_progress(bdi))
585 return; /* pdflush is already working this queue */ 585 return;
586 586
587 /* 587 /*
588 * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before 588 * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before