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Message-Id: <1346083301-3545-1-git-send-email-linkinjeon@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:01:41 -0400
From: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com>
To: fengguang.wu@...el.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com>,
Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>,
Vivek Trivedi <t.vivek@...sung.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: add description of dirty_background_time
From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>
This commit adds dirty_background_time description in bdi sysfs
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Trivedi <t.vivek@...sung.com>
---
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi
index 5f50097..018e26a 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi
@@ -48,3 +48,16 @@ max_ratio (read-write)
most of the write-back cache. For example in case of an NFS
mount that is prone to get stuck, or a FUSE mount which cannot
be trusted to play fair.
+
+dirty_background_time (read-write)
+
+ It is used to start early writeback of given bdi once bdi dirty
+ data exceeds product of average write bandwidth and
+ dirty_background_time. It is mainly useful for tuning writeback
+ speed at 'NFS Server' so that NFS client could see better write speed.
+
+ However, sometimes it may not match user expectations as it is based
+ on bdi write bandwidth estimation. Write bandwidth estimation is a
+ best effort to estimate bdi write speed bandwidth. But it can be
+ wildly wrong in certain situations.
+ dirty_background_time is expressed in msec.
--
1.7.9.5
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