[patch 1/2/4] mm: writeback: cleanups in preparation for per-zone dirty limits

Minchan Kim minchan.kim at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 00:57:14 CDT 2011


On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 04:41:07PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:52:42AM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 04:02:26PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Should we rename determine_dirtyable_memory() to
> > > global_dirtyable_memory(), to get some sense of its relationship with
> > > zone_dirtyable_memory()?
> > 
> > Sounds good.
> 
> ---
> 
> The next patch will introduce per-zone dirty limiting functions in
> addition to the traditional global dirty limiting.
> 
> Rename determine_dirtyable_memory() to global_dirtyable_memory()
> before adding the zone-specific version, and fix up its documentation.
> 
> Also, move the functions to determine the dirtyable memory and the
> function to calculate the dirty limit based on that together so that
> their relationship is more apparent and that they can be commented on
> as a group.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim at gmail.com>
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Kinds regards,
Minchan Kim




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