Re: why is the jiffies 128 in jffs2_find_gc_block() in gc.c ofjffs2.

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 22:43 +0530, krishna wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can any one tell me
> why is the jiffies _128_ in jffs2_find_gc_block() in gc.c of jffs2.

jiffies isn't set in that function.  The value of jiffies is modded by
128.  Since jiffies is a volatile value, the value of n is usually
different on each call of that function.  This value is used to pick an
eraseblock to garbage collect out of a series of different lists.  This
is done to help with effective wear leveling of flash eraseblocks.

josh

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