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Andrea Righi 7a6560e025 documentation: clarify dirty_ratio and dirty_background_ratio description 
The current documentation of dirty_ratio and dirty_background_ratio is a
bit misleading.

In the documentation we say that they are "a percentage of total system
memory", but the current page writeback policy, intead, is to apply the
percentages to the dirtyable memory, that means free pages + reclaimable
pages.

Better to be more explicit to clarify this concept.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
 		2008-10-20 08:52:32 -07:00
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configfs docsrc: build Documentation/ sources 2008-08-12 16:07:30 -07:00
00-INDEX Documentation: move rpc-cache.txt to filesystems/ 2008-04-11 13:20:52 -06:00
9p.txt 9p: add virtio transport 2007-10-23 13:47:31 -05:00
Exporting exportfs: update documentation 2007-10-22 08:13:21 -07:00
Locking update Documentation/filesystems/Locking for 2.6.27 changes 2008-09-09 11:51:15 -07:00
adfs.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
affs.txt
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afs.txt [AFS]: Update the AFS fs documentation. 2007-04-26 15:57:43 -07:00
autofs4-mount-control.txt autofs4: device node ioctl documentation 2008-10-16 11:21:39 -07:00
automount-support.txt VFS: Unexport do_kern_mount() and clean up simple_pin_fs() 2006-06-09 09:34:16 -04:00
befs.txt Fix typos in Documentation/: 'Q'-'R' 2006-10-03 22:54:15 +02:00
bfs.txt remove mention of CONFIG_KMOD from documentation 2008-07-22 19:24:29 +10:00
cifs.txt
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coda.txt
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cramfs.txt
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dentry-locking.txt
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directory-locking Documentation: Fix up docs still talking about i_sem 2007-05-24 10:16:17 -07:00
dlmfs.txt Fix typos in Documentation/: 'D'-'E' 2006-10-03 22:47:42 +02:00
dnotify.txt Documentation: move dnotify.txt to filesystems/ 2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
ecryptfs.txt eCryptfs: Move ecryptfs docs into Documentation/filesystems/ 2007-07-17 10:23:08 -07:00
ext2.txt Fix typos in Documentation/: 'N'-'P' 2006-10-03 22:52:05 +02:00
ext3.txt Remove Andrew Morton's http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/ 2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
ext4.txt ext4: Update Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt 2008-10-17 09:15:14 -04:00
fiemap.txt vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface 2008-10-08 19:44:18 -04:00
files.txt Documentation/filesystems/files.txt: remove rcuref_inc_lf() reverences 2007-10-20 01:47:49 +02:00
fuse.txt [PATCH] fuse: fix typo 2006-12-30 10:56:45 -08:00
gfs2-glocks.txt [GFS2] Glock documentation 2008-06-27 09:39:53 +01:00
gfs2.txt [GFS2] Update documentation 2006-04-25 15:44:04 -04:00
hfs.txt
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hfsplus.txt Documentation: document HFSPlus 2007-07-31 15:39:38 -07:00
hpfs.txt misc doc and kconfig typos 2007-05-09 08:58:15 +02:00
inotify.txt [PATCH] inotify (5/5): update kernel documentation 2006-06-20 05:25:19 -04:00
isofs.txt isofs: implement dmode option 2008-02-08 09:22:38 -08:00
jfs.txt JFS: document uid, gid, and umask mount options in jfs.txt 2007-03-09 10:27:31 -06:00
locks.txt Documentation: move locks.txt in filesystems/ 2007-10-09 18:32:45 -04:00
mandatory-locking.txt locks: add warning about mandatory locking races 2007-10-09 18:32:45 -04:00
ncpfs.txt
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nfs-rdma.txt nfs: rewrap NFS/RDMA documentation to 80 lines 2008-06-30 15:24:43 -04:00
nfsroot.txt doc: typo in Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt 2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
ntfs.txt NTFS: update homepage 2008-09-02 19:21:37 -07:00
ocfs2.txt ocfs2: Documentation update for user_xattr / nouser_xattr mount options 2008-10-13 17:02:44 -07:00
omfs.txt omfs: add filesystem documentation 2008-07-26 12:00:05 -07:00
porting iget: remove iget() and the read_inode() super op as being obsolete 2008-02-07 08:42:29 -08:00
proc.txt documentation: clarify dirty_ratio and dirty_background_ratio description 2008-10-20 08:52:32 -07:00
quota.txt quota: documentation for sending "below quota" messages via netlink and tiny doc update 2008-08-12 16:07:27 -07:00
ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt Fix Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt 2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
relay.txt relay: add buffer-only channels; useful for early logging 2008-07-26 12:00:04 -07:00
romfs.txt
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rpc-cache.txt Documentation: move rpc-cache.txt to filesystems/ 2008-04-11 13:20:52 -06:00
seq_file.txt Document seq_path_root() 2008-04-25 11:56:37 -06:00
sharedsubtree.txt Documentation: move sharedsubtrees.txt to filesystems/ 2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
smbfs.txt
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spufs.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
sysfs-pci.txt x86: PAT export resource_wc in pci sysfs 2008-06-12 10:12:42 +02:00
sysfs.txt sysfs: add /sys/dev/{char,block} to lookup sysfs path by major:minor 2008-07-21 21:54:40 -07:00
sysv-fs.txt [PATCH] fs/sysv/: doc cleanup 2006-12-07 08:39:44 -08:00
tmpfs.txt mempolicy: update NUMA memory policy documentation 2008-04-28 08:58:19 -07:00
ubifs.txt Documentation: fix typo in ubifs.txt 2008-08-13 11:14:54 +03:00
udf.txt [PATCH] Update udf documentation to reflect current state of read/write support 2006-11-16 11:43:38 -08:00
ufs.txt [PATCH] ufs2 write: mount as rw 2007-02-12 09:48:40 -08:00
vfat.txt UTC timestamp option for FAT filesystems fix 2008-07-25 10:53:34 -07:00
vfs.txt Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections. 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
xfs.txt [XFS] Update XFS documentation for noikeep/ikeep. 2008-04-18 12:18:42 +10:00
xip.txt misc doc and kconfig typos 2007-05-09 08:58:15 +02:00