summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/mm/page-writeback.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>2011-03-02 17:14:34 -0600
committerWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>2011-06-08 08:25:22 +0800
commit6f7186562771ec9b629914df328048449ccddf4a (patch)
tree573a5550c80843373fac6f95f7ef767d92cb83f6 /mm/page-writeback.c
parente185dda89d69cde142b48059413a03561f41f78a (diff)
downloadlinux-6f7186562771ec9b629914df328048449ccddf4a.tar.gz
linux-6f7186562771ec9b629914df328048449ccddf4a.tar.bz2
linux-6f7186562771ec9b629914df328048449ccddf4a.zip
writeback: add bdi_dirty_limit() kernel-doc
Clarify the bdi_dirty_limit() comment. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c11
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
*