mm/page-writeback.c: remove outdated comment

There is an orphaned prehistoric comment , which used to be against
get_dirty_limits(), the dawn of global_dirtyable_memory().

Back then, the implementation of get_dirty_limits() is complicated and
full of magic numbers, so this comment is necessary.  But we now use the
clear and neat global_dirtyable_memory(), which renders this comment
ambiguous and useless.  Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index b9b8e82046280451ed418e58de53dd42d8aa3cd0..533fa60c9ac1af4df4e384175cd798062e3e55d1 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -155,24 +155,6 @@ static unsigned long writeout_period_time = 0;
  */
 #define VM_COMPLETIONS_PERIOD_LEN (3*HZ)
 
-/*
- * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout
- * thresholds.
- *
- * The main aim here is to lower them aggressively if there is a lot of mapped
- * memory around.  To avoid stressing page reclaim with lots of unreclaimable
- * pages.  It is better to clamp down on writers than to start swapping, and
- * performing lots of scanning.
- *
- * We only allow 1/2 of the currently-unmapped memory to be dirtied.
- *
- * We don't permit the clamping level to fall below 5% - that is getting rather
- * excessive.
- *
- * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted
- * clamping level.
- */
-
 /*
  * In a memory zone, there is a certain amount of pages we consider
  * available for the page cache, which is essentially the number of