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-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 955fe35..b8be623 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
*
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