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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
-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) | |||
437 | *pdirty = dirty; | 437 | *pdirty = dirty; |
438 | } | 438 | } |
439 | 439 | ||
440 | /* | 440 | /** |
441 | * bdi_dirty_limit - @bdi's share of dirty throttling threshold | 441 | * bdi_dirty_limit - @bdi's share of dirty throttling threshold |
442 | * @bdi: the backing_dev_info to query | ||
443 | * @dirty: global dirty limit in pages | ||
444 | * | ||
445 | * Returns @bdi's dirty limit in pages. The term "dirty" in the context of | ||
446 | * dirty balancing includes all PG_dirty, PG_writeback and NFS unstable pages. | ||
447 | * And the "limit" in the name is not seriously taken as hard limit in | ||
448 | * balance_dirty_pages(). | ||
442 | * | 449 | * |
443 | * Allocate high/low dirty limits to fast/slow devices, in order to prevent | 450 | * It allocates high/low dirty limits to fast/slow devices, in order to prevent |
444 | * - starving fast devices | 451 | * - starving fast devices |
445 | * - piling up dirty pages (that will take long time to sync) on slow devices | 452 | * - piling up dirty pages (that will take long time to sync) on slow devices |
446 | * | 453 | * |