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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 3c78fc31620..8bef063125b 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ static inline long sync_writeback_pages(unsigned long dirtied) /* The following parameters are exported via /proc/sys/vm */ /* - * Start background writeback (via pdflush) at this percentage + * Start background writeback (via writeback threads) at this percentage */ int dirty_background_ratio = 10; @@ -477,8 +477,8 @@ get_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty, * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty * data. It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force * the caller to perform writeback if the system is over `vm_dirty_ratio'. - * If we're over `background_thresh' then pdflush is woken to perform some - * writeout. + * If we're over `background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to + * perform some writeout. */ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, unsigned long write_chunk) @@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, bdi->dirty_exceeded = 0; if (writeback_in_progress(bdi)) - return; /* pdflush is already working this queue */ + return; /* * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before |