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

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Mon Jul 25 2011 - 16:21:52 EST


From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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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