>> >> In order to bucket IO for the polling algorithm we use a sysfs entry >> to set the filter value. It is signed and we will use that as follows: >> >> 0 : No filtering. All IO are considered in stat generation >> > 0 : Filtering based on IO of exactly this size only. >> < 0 : Filtering based on IO less than or equal to -1 time this value.> > > I'd say that this is a fairly non-trivial semantic meanning to this... > > Is there any use for the size exact match filter? If not then > I suggest we always make it (<=) in its semantics... Thanks for the review Sagi. I’d be OK going with <=0 as the exact match would normally be for minimal IO sizes (where <= and = are the same thing). I will see what other feedback I get and aim to do a respin soon… Stephen