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mm/page-writeback.c: remove outdated comment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>

authored by

Jianyu Zhan and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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mm/page-writeback.c
··· 156 156 #define VM_COMPLETIONS_PERIOD_LEN (3*HZ) 157 157 158 158 /* 159 - * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout 160 - * thresholds. 161 - * 162 - * The main aim here is to lower them aggressively if there is a lot of mapped 163 - * memory around. To avoid stressing page reclaim with lots of unreclaimable 164 - * pages. It is better to clamp down on writers than to start swapping, and 165 - * performing lots of scanning. 166 - * 167 - * We only allow 1/2 of the currently-unmapped memory to be dirtied. 168 - * 169 - * We don't permit the clamping level to fall below 5% - that is getting rather 170 - * excessive. 171 - * 172 - * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted 173 - * clamping level. 174 - */ 175 - 176 - /* 177 159 * In a memory zone, there is a certain amount of pages we consider 178 160 * available for the page cache, which is essentially the number of 179 161 * free and reclaimable pages, minus some zone reserves to protect