On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:38:05 -0600 Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Oct 28, 2008 16:16 -0400, Josef Bacik wrote: > > I also have a min() check in there to make sure we don't sleep > > longer than a jiffie in case our storage is super slow, this was > > requested by Andrew. > > Is there a particular reason why 1 jiffie is considered the "right > amount" of time to sleep, given this is a kernel config parameter and > has nothing to do with the storage? Considering a seek time in the > range of ~10ms this would only be right for HZ=100 and the wait would well... my disk does a 50 usec seek time or so.. so I don't mind ;-) in fact it sounds awefully long to me. -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
