On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 12:27 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > +void bdi_update_write_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, > + unsigned long *bw_time, > + s64 *bw_written) > +{ > + unsigned long written; > + unsigned long elapsed; > + unsigned long bw; > + unsigned long w; > + > + if (*bw_written == 0) > + goto snapshot; > + > + elapsed = jiffies - *bw_time; > + if (elapsed < HZ/100) > + return; > + > + /* > + * When there lots of tasks throttled in balance_dirty_pages(), they > + * will each try to update the bandwidth for the same period, making > + * the bandwidth drift much faster than the desired rate (as in the > + * single dirtier case). So do some rate limiting. > + */ > + if (jiffies - bdi->write_bandwidth_update_time < elapsed) > + goto snapshot; Why this goto snapshot and not simply return? This is the second call (bdi_update_bandwidth equivalent). If you were to leave the old bw_written/bw_time in place the next loop around in wb_writeback() would see a larger delta.. I guess this funny loop in wb_writeback() is also the reason you've got a single function and not the get/update like separation > + written = percpu_counter_read(&bdi->bdi_stat[BDI_WRITTEN]) - *bw_written; > + bw = (HZ * PAGE_CACHE_SIZE * written + elapsed/2) / elapsed; > + w = min(elapsed / (HZ/100), 128UL); > + bdi->write_bandwidth = (bdi->write_bandwidth * (1024-w) + bw * w) >> 10; > + bdi->write_bandwidth_update_time = jiffies; > +snapshot: > + *bw_written = percpu_counter_read(&bdi->bdi_stat[BDI_WRITTEN]); > + *bw_time = jiffies; > +} -- 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