Re: [PATCH] blk-throttle: Fix calculation of max number of WRITES tobe dispatched

From: Vivek Goyal
Date: Mon Nov 15 2010 - 10:28:11 EST


On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 01:29:41PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> o Currently we try to dispatch more READS and less WRITES (75%, 25%) in one
> dispatch round. ummy pointed out that there is a bug in max_nr_writes
> calculation. This patch fixes it.
>
> Reported-by: ummy y <yummylln@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Hi Jens,

Do you have any concerns about this patch? If not, can you please apply
it.

Thanks
Vivek

> block/blk-throttle.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/block/blk-throttle.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/block/blk-throttle.c 2010-10-27 10:57:25.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6/block/blk-throttle.c 2010-10-27 11:02:33.733048194 -0400
> @@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ static int throtl_dispatch_tg(struct thr
> {
> unsigned int nr_reads = 0, nr_writes = 0;
> unsigned int max_nr_reads = throtl_grp_quantum*3/4;
> - unsigned int max_nr_writes = throtl_grp_quantum - nr_reads;
> + unsigned int max_nr_writes = throtl_grp_quantum - max_nr_reads;
> struct bio *bio;
>
> /* Try to dispatch 75% READS and 25% WRITES */
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