Documentation: fix the VM knobs descritpion WRT pdflush
The pdflush thread is long gone, however we still mention it incorrectly in the kernel documentation. This patch fixes the situation. Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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dirty_background_bytes
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Contains the amount of dirty memory at which the pdflush background writeback
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daemon will start writeback.
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Contains the amount of dirty memory at which the background kernel
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flusher threads will start writeback.
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Note: dirty_background_bytes is the counterpart of dirty_background_ratio. Only
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one of them may be specified at a time. When one sysctl is written it is
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@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ other appears as 0 when read.
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dirty_background_ratio
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Contains, as a percentage of total system memory, the number of pages at which
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the pdflush background writeback daemon will start writing out dirty data.
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the background kernel flusher threads will start writing out dirty data.
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@@ -112,9 +112,9 @@ retained.
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dirty_expire_centisecs
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This tunable is used to define when dirty data is old enough to be eligible
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for writeout by the pdflush daemons. It is expressed in 100'ths of a second.
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Data which has been dirty in-memory for longer than this interval will be
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written out next time a pdflush daemon wakes up.
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for writeout by the kernel flusher threads. It is expressed in 100'ths
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of a second. Data which has been dirty in-memory for longer than this
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interval will be written out next time a flusher thread wakes up.
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@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ data.
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dirty_writeback_centisecs
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The pdflush writeback daemons will periodically wake up and write `old' data
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The kernel flusher threads will periodically wake up and write `old' data
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out to disk. This tunable expresses the interval between those wakeups, in
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100'ths of a second.
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