From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
To: tytso@mit.edu, corbet@lwn.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] doc: add description to dirtytime_expire_seconds
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 07:56:53 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1527724613-17768-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
commit 1efff914afac8a965ad63817ecf8861a927c2ace ("fs: add
dirtytime_expire_seconds sysctl") introduced dirtytime_expire_seconds
knob, but there is not description about it in
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt.
Add the description for it.
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
---
I didn't dig into the old review discussion about why the description
was not added at the first place. I'm supposed every knob under /proc/sys
should have a brief description.
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index 17256f2..f4f4f9c 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
- dirty_bytes
- dirty_expire_centisecs
- dirty_ratio
+- dirtytime_expire_seconds
- dirty_writeback_centisecs
- drop_caches
- extfrag_threshold
@@ -178,6 +179,16 @@ The total available memory is not equal to total system memory.
==============================================================
+dirtytime_expire_seconds
+
+When a lazytime inode is constantly having its pages dirtied, it with an
+updated timestamp will never get chance to be written out. This tunable
+is used to define when dirty inode is old enough to be eligible for
+writeback by the kernel flusher threads. And, it is also used as the
+interval to wakeup dirtytime_writeback thread. It is expressed in seconds.
+
+==============================================================
+
dirty_writeback_centisecs
The kernel flusher threads will periodically wake up and write `old' data
--
1.8.3.1
next reply other threads:[~2018-05-30 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-30 23:56 Yang Shi [this message]
2018-06-15 0:23 ` [PATCH] doc: add description to dirtytime_expire_seconds Yang Shi
2018-06-15 7:04 ` Nikolay Borisov
2018-06-26 14:34 ` Jonathan Corbet
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