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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
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Artem Bityutskiy 2012-07-25 18:12:01 +03:00 • committed by Al Viro
commit 6601fac822
2 changed files with 13 additions and 13 deletions

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@ -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'}