diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index b9b8e8204628..533fa60c9ac1 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -155,24 +155,6 @@ static unsigned long writeout_period_time = 0;
  */
 #define VM_COMPLETIONS_PERIOD_LEN (3*HZ)
 
-/*
- * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout
- * thresholds.
- *
- * The main aim here is to lower them aggressively if there is a lot of mapped
- * memory around.  To avoid stressing page reclaim with lots of unreclaimable
- * pages.  It is better to clamp down on writers than to start swapping, and
- * performing lots of scanning.
- *
- * We only allow 1/2 of the currently-unmapped memory to be dirtied.
- *
- * We don't permit the clamping level to fall below 5% - that is getting rather
- * excessive.
- *
- * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted
- * clamping level.
- */
-
 /*
  * In a memory zone, there is a certain amount of pages we consider
  * available for the page cache, which is essentially the number of