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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/4] writeback: add bdi_dirty_limit() kernel-doc
On Wed 13-04-11 16:59:38, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> Clarify the bdi_dirty_limit() comment.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Looks fine.

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Honza
> ---
> mm/page-writeback.c | 11 +++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> --- linux-next.orig/mm/page-writeback.c 2011-03-03 14:38:12.000000000 +0800
> +++ linux-next/mm/page-writeback.c 2011-03-03 14:40:52.000000000 +0800
> @@ -437,10 +437,17 @@ void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *
> *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
> *
>
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR


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