提交 6f718656 编写于 作者: W Wu Fengguang

writeback: add bdi_dirty_limit() kernel-doc

Clarify the bdi_dirty_limit() comment.
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
上级 e185dda8
...@@ -437,10 +437,17 @@ void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty) ...@@ -437,10 +437,17 @@ void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty)
*pdirty = dirty; *pdirty = dirty;
} }
/* /**
* bdi_dirty_limit - @bdi's share of dirty throttling threshold * 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 * - starving fast devices
* - piling up dirty pages (that will take long time to sync) on slow devices * - piling up dirty pages (that will take long time to sync) on slow devices
* *
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