Re: [RFC] [PATCH -mm 0/2] memcg: per cgroup dirty_ratio

[Andrew Morton]

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:04:35 +0200
Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> BTW why not use a simple dirty-ratio-in-bytes?

s/ratio/amount/  ;)

No particular reason - I haven't really thought about it frankly.

A "ratio" might make more sense in a containerised setup, particularly
if the container can be resized on the fly.
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