1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Linux Kernel API"><link rel="up" href="ch04s03.html" title="More Memory Management Functions"><link rel="prev" href="API-dmam-pool-destroy.html" title="dmam_pool_destroy"><link rel="next" href="API-tag-pages-for-writeback.html" title="tag_pages_for_writeback"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-dmam-pool-destroy.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th width="60%" align="center">More Memory Management Functions</th><td width="20%" align="right">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="API-tag-pages-for-writeback.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-balance-dirty-pages-ratelimited"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited &#8212; 
2  balance dirty memory state
3 </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">void <b class="fsfunc">balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited </b>(</code></td><td>struct address_space * <var class="pdparam">mapping</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1124780188"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>mapping</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
4     address_space which was dirtied
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6   Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page
7   which was newly dirtied.  The function will periodically check the system's
8   dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed.
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11   On really big machines, get_writeback_state is expensive, so try to avoid
12   calling it too often (ratelimiting).  But once we're over the dirty memory
13   limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes
14   from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each.
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