1What: /sys/class/bdi/<bdi>/ 2Date: January 2008 3Contact: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> 4Description: 5 6Provide a place in sysfs for the backing_dev_info object. 7This allows us to see and set the various BDI specific variables. 8 9The <bdi> identifier can be either of the following: 10 11MAJOR:MINOR 12 13 Device number for block devices, or value of st_dev on 14 non-block filesystems which provide their own BDI, such as NFS 15 and FUSE. 16 17default 18 19 The default backing dev, used for non-block device backed 20 filesystems which do not provide their own BDI. 21 22Files under /sys/class/bdi/<bdi>/ 23--------------------------------- 24 25read_ahead_kb (read-write) 26 27 Size of the read-ahead window in kilobytes 28 29reclaimable_kb (read-only) 30 31 Reclaimable (dirty or unstable) memory destined for writeback 32 to this device 33 34writeback_kb (read-only) 35 36 Memory currently under writeback to this device 37 38dirty_kb (read-only) 39 40 Global threshold for reclaimable + writeback memory 41 42bdi_dirty_kb (read-only) 43 44 Current threshold on this BDI for reclaimable + writeback 45 memory 46 47