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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2008-04-30 00:54:36 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-30 08:29:50 -0700
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mm: bdi: allow setting a maximum for the bdi dirty limit
Add "max_ratio" to /sys/class/bdi. This indicates the maximum percentage of the global dirty threshold allocated to this bdi. [mszeredi@suse.cz] - fix parsing in max_ratio_store(). - export bdi_set_max_ratio() to modules - limit bdi_dirty with bdi->max_ratio - document new sysfs attribute Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi9
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi
index b9e8a9368dc6..c55e811ca180 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi
@@ -49,4 +49,11 @@ min_ratio (read-write)
Minimal percentage of global dirty threshold allocated to this
bdi. If the value written to this file would make the the sum
of all min_ratio values exceed 100, then EINVAL is returned.
- The default is zero
+ If min_ratio would become larger than the current max_ratio,
+ then also EINVAL is returned. The default is zero
+
+max_ratio (read-write)
+
+ Maximal percentage of global dirty threshold allocated to this
+ bdi. If max_ratio would become smaller than the current
+ min_ratio, then EINVAL is returned. The default is 100