mm: page-writeback: kill get_writeback_state() comments

The get_writeback_state() has gone since 2006, kill related comments.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210508125026.56600-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kefeng Wang 2021-06-28 19:35:28 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent f8af4d0892
commit 5defd497ed
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@ -1869,10 +1869,9 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, dirty_throttle_leaks) = 0;
* which was newly dirtied. The function will periodically check the system's
* dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed.
*
* On really big machines, get_writeback_state is expensive, so try to avoid
* calling it too often (ratelimiting). But once we're over the dirty memory
* limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes
* from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each.
* Once we're over the dirty memory limit we decrease the ratelimiting
* by a lot, to prevent individual processes from overshooting the limit
* by (ratelimit_pages) each.
*/
void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping)
{
@ -2045,8 +2044,6 @@ void laptop_sync_completion(void)
/*
* If ratelimit_pages is too high then we can get into dirty-data overload
* if a large number of processes all perform writes at the same time.
* If it is too low then SMP machines will call the (expensive)
* get_writeback_state too often.
*
* Here we set ratelimit_pages to a level which ensures that when all CPUs are
* dirtying in parallel, we cannot go more than 3% (1/32) over the dirty memory