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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 14 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt b/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt index 0bf25eebce94..4ebbfc3f1c6e 100644 --- a/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt +++ b/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt @@ -262,9 +262,9 @@ MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES=10 # # Allowed dirty background ratio, in percent. Once DIRTY_RATIO has been -# exceeded, the kernel will wake pdflush which will then reduce the amount -# of dirty memory to dirty_background_ratio. Set this nice and low, so once -# some writeout has commenced, we do a lot of it. +# exceeded, the kernel will wake flusher threads which will then reduce the +# amount of dirty memory to dirty_background_ratio. Set this nice and low, +# so once some writeout has commenced, we do a lot of it. # #DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=5 @@ -384,9 +384,9 @@ CPU_MAXFREQ=${CPU_MAXFREQ:-'slowest'} # # Allowed dirty background ratio, in percent. Once DIRTY_RATIO has been -# exceeded, the kernel will wake pdflush which will then reduce the amount -# of dirty memory to dirty_background_ratio. Set this nice and low, so once -# some writeout has commenced, we do a lot of it. +# exceeded, the kernel will wake flusher threads which will then reduce the +# amount of dirty memory to dirty_background_ratio. Set this nice and low, +# so once some writeout has commenced, we do a lot of it. # DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=${DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO:-'5'} diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index dcc2a94ae34e..078701fdbd4d 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ huge pages although processes will also directly compact memory as required. dirty_background_bytes -Contains the amount of dirty memory at which the pdflush background writeback -daemon will start writeback. +Contains the amount of dirty memory at which the background kernel +flusher threads will start writeback. Note: dirty_background_bytes is the counterpart of dirty_background_ratio. Only one of them may be specified at a time. When one sysctl is written it is @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ other appears as 0 when read. dirty_background_ratio Contains, as a percentage of total system memory, the number of pages at which -the pdflush background writeback daemon will start writing out dirty data. +the background kernel flusher threads will start writing out dirty data. ============================================================== @@ -112,9 +112,9 @@ retained. dirty_expire_centisecs This tunable is used to define when dirty data is old enough to be eligible -for writeout by the pdflush daemons. It is expressed in 100'ths of a second. -Data which has been dirty in-memory for longer than this interval will be -written out next time a pdflush daemon wakes up. +for writeout by the kernel flusher threads. It is expressed in 100'ths +of a second. Data which has been dirty in-memory for longer than this +interval will be written out next time a flusher thread wakes up. ============================================================== @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ data. dirty_writeback_centisecs -The pdflush writeback daemons will periodically wake up and write `old' data +The kernel flusher threads will periodically wake up and write `old' data out to disk. This tunable expresses the interval between those wakeups, in 100'ths of a second. |