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documentation: clarify dirty_ratio and dirty_background_ratio description
authorAndrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:27:13 +0000 (20:27 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:52:32 +0000 (08:52 -0700)
commit3a6a87cc42dfae63f74eb5b7261e6d231338dd25
tree7c1ded3e016e8604deb0cfb3b2d85389a8ae106e
parent894538fdc01507992ce310f7689b77324dff1052
documentation: clarify dirty_ratio and dirty_background_ratio description

The current documentation of dirty_ratio and dirty_background_ratio is a
bit misleading.

In the documentation we say that they are "a percentage of total system
memory", but the current page writeback policy, intead, is to apply the
percentages to the dirtyable memory, that means free pages + reclaimable
pages.

Better to be more explicit to clarify this concept.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt