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diff --git a/include/llvm/Support/CachePruning.h b/include/llvm/Support/CachePruning.h
index 327c7df4570f..cf3f8ec67a52 100644
--- a/include/llvm/Support/CachePruning.h
+++ b/include/llvm/Support/CachePruning.h
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ struct CachePruningPolicy {
std::chrono::seconds Expiration = std::chrono::hours(7 * 24); // 1w
/// The maximum size for the cache directory, in terms of percentage of the
- /// available space on the the disk. Set to 100 to indicate no limit, 50 to
+ /// available space on the disk. Set to 100 to indicate no limit, 50 to
/// indicate that the cache size will not be left over half the available disk
/// space. A value over 100 will be reduced to 100. A value of 0 disables the
/// percentage size-based pruning.
@@ -52,9 +52,11 @@ struct CachePruningPolicy {
/// the number of files based pruning.
///
/// This defaults to 1000000 because with that many files there are
- /// diminishing returns on the effectiveness of the cache, and some file
- /// systems have a limit on how many files can be contained in a directory
- /// (notably ext4, which is limited to around 6000000 files).
+ /// diminishing returns on the effectiveness of the cache. Some systems have a
+ /// limit on total number of files, and some also limit the number of files
+ /// per directory, such as Linux ext4, with the default setting (block size is
+ /// 4096 and large_dir disabled), there is a per-directory entry limit of
+ /// 508*510*floor(4096/(40+8))~=20M for average filename length of 40.
uint64_t MaxSizeFiles = 1000000;
};
@@ -66,7 +68,7 @@ struct CachePruningPolicy {
Expected<CachePruningPolicy> parseCachePruningPolicy(StringRef PolicyStr);
/// Peform pruning using the supplied policy, returns true if pruning
-/// occured, i.e. if Policy.Interval was expired.
+/// occurred, i.e. if Policy.Interval was expired.
///
/// As a safeguard against data loss if the user specifies the wrong directory
/// as their cache directory, this function will ignore files not matching the