linux-kernel - Re: [patch 3/5] mm: writeback: remove seriously stale comment on dirty limits

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:38:13 +0200
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 3/5] mm: writeback: remove seriously stale comment on
 dirty limits

On Mon 25-07-11 22:19:17, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>

Indeed outdated a lot.

Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
if it makes any sense for comment removal like this.

> ---
>  mm/page-writeback.c |   18 ------------------
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
> index a4de005..41dc871 100644
> --- a/mm/page-writeback.c
> +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
> @@ -379,24 +379,6 @@ int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned max_ratio)
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_set_max_ratio);
>  
>  /*
> - * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout
> - * thresholds.
> - *
> - * The main aim here is to lower them aggressively if there is a lot of mapped
> - * memory around.  To avoid stressing page reclaim with lots of unreclaimable
> - * pages.  It is better to clamp down on writers than to start swapping, and
> - * performing lots of scanning.
> - *
> - * We only allow 1/2 of the currently-unmapped memory to be dirtied.
> - *
> - * We don't permit the clamping level to fall below 5% - that is getting rather
> - * excessive.
> - *
> - * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted
> - * clamping level.
> - */
> -
> -/*
>   * global_dirty_limits - background-writeback and dirty-throttling thresholds
>   *
>   * Calculate the dirty thresholds based on sysctl parameters
> -- 
> 1.7.6
> 
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