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authorJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-09-23 17:37:09 (GMT)
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-09-25 16:08:25 (GMT)
commit5b0830cb9085f4b69f9d57d7f3aaff322ffbec26 (patch)
tree10040eb359269d4cd05487790b758144a69e8e39 /mm/page-writeback.c
parent71fd05a887e0f3f6bfff76ff81b33776177d0606 (diff)
downloadlinux-5b0830cb9085f4b69f9d57d7f3aaff322ffbec26.tar.xz
writeback: get rid to incorrect references to pdflush in comments
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 3c78fc3..8bef063 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