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author | Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> | 2012-07-25 18:12:01 +0300 |
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committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2012-08-04 12:15:09 +0400 |
commit | 6601fac822778aa6003aed37d8ba7acdc9a4f369 (patch) | |
tree | b662a04bb0768810448fbec04ffecf802df58449 /Documentation/laptops | |
parent | 34e5053fbe88800f5c2c6cbc849abb5a9f390974 (diff) |
Documentation: fix the VM knobs descritpion WRT pdflush
The pdflush thread is long gone, however we still mention it incorrectly in the
kernel documentation. This patch fixes the situation.
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/laptops')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt b/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt index 0bf25eebce9..4ebbfc3f1c6 100644 --- a/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt +++ b/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt @@ -262,9 +262,9 @@ MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES=10 # # Allowed dirty background ratio, in percent. Once DIRTY_RATIO has been -# exceeded, the kernel will wake pdflush which will then reduce the amount -# of dirty memory to dirty_background_ratio. Set this nice and low, so once -# some writeout has commenced, we do a lot of it. +# exceeded, the kernel will wake flusher threads which will then reduce the +# amount of dirty memory to dirty_background_ratio. Set this nice and low, +# so once some writeout has commenced, we do a lot of it. # #DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=5 @@ -384,9 +384,9 @@ CPU_MAXFREQ=${CPU_MAXFREQ:-'slowest'} # # Allowed dirty background ratio, in percent. Once DIRTY_RATIO has been -# exceeded, the kernel will wake pdflush which will then reduce the amount -# of dirty memory to dirty_background_ratio. Set this nice and low, so once -# some writeout has commenced, we do a lot of it. +# exceeded, the kernel will wake flusher threads which will then reduce the +# amount of dirty memory to dirty_background_ratio. Set this nice and low, +# so once some writeout has commenced, we do a lot of it. # DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=${DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO:-'5'} |