From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2/4] mm: writeback: cleanups in preparation for
 per-zone dirty limits
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:27:19 +0100
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	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
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On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 04:41:07PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:52:42AM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 04:02:26PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Should we rename determine_dirtyable_memory() to
> > > global_dirtyable_memory(), to get some sense of its relationship with
> > > zone_dirtyable_memory()?
> > 
> > Sounds good.
> 
> ---
> 
> The next patch will introduce per-zone dirty limiting functions in
> addition to the traditional global dirty limiting.
> 
> Rename determine_dirtyable_memory() to global_dirtyable_memory()
> before adding the zone-specific version, and fix up its documentation.
> 
> Also, move the functions to determine the dirtyable memory and the
> function to calculate the dirty limit based on that together so that
> their relationship is more apparent and that they can be commented on
> as a group.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@suse.de>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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