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@@ -437,10 +437,17 @@ void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty)
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*pdirty = dirty;
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}
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-/*
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+/**
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* bdi_dirty_limit - @bdi's share of dirty throttling threshold
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+ * @bdi: the backing_dev_info to query
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+ * @dirty: global dirty limit in pages
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+ *
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+ * Returns @bdi's dirty limit in pages. The term "dirty" in the context of
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+ * dirty balancing includes all PG_dirty, PG_writeback and NFS unstable pages.
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+ * And the "limit" in the name is not seriously taken as hard limit in
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+ * balance_dirty_pages().
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*
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- * Allocate high/low dirty limits to fast/slow devices, in order to prevent
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+ * It allocates high/low dirty limits to fast/slow devices, in order to prevent
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* - starving fast devices
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* - piling up dirty pages (that will take long time to sync) on slow devices
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*
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