linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix a comment typo

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Date:   Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:26:59 +0800
From:   brookxu <brookxu.cn@...il.com>
To:     James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix a comment typo

Thank you very much for your reply, it should be my misunderstanding, thanks again~

James Bottomley wrote on 2020/3/18 11:59:
> On Wed, 2020-03-18 at 11:42 +0800, brookxu wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Chunguang Xu <brookxu@...cent.com>
>>
>> ---
>>  mm/page-writeback.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
>> index 2caf780..2acf754 100644
>> --- a/mm/page-writeback.c
>> +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
>> @@ -1271,7 +1271,7 @@ static void wb_update_dirty_ratelimit(struct
>> dirty_throttle_control *dtc,
>>       */
>>  
>>      /*
>> -     * dirty_ratelimit will follow balanced_dirty_ratelimit iff
>> +     * dirty_ratelimit will follow balanced_dirty_ratelimit if
> Are you sure it's a mistake? iff means if and only if which would be
> reasonable unless the condition is only implies.
>  
> James
>