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>
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@ -437,10 +437,17 @@ void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty)
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*pdirty = dirty;
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/*
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/**
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* bdi_dirty_limit - @bdi's share of dirty throttling threshold
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* @bdi: the backing_dev_info to query
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* @dirty: global dirty limit in pages
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*
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* Allocate high/low dirty limits to fast/slow devices, in order to prevent
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* Returns @bdi's dirty limit in pages. The term "dirty" in the context of
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* dirty balancing includes all PG_dirty, PG_writeback and NFS unstable pages.
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* And the "limit" in the name is not seriously taken as hard limit in
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* balance_dirty_pages().
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*
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* It allocates high/low dirty limits to fast/slow devices, in order to prevent
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* - starving fast devices
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* - piling up dirty pages (that will take long time to sync) on slow devices
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*
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