Wanpeng,
Sorry this I won't take this: it don't really improve anything. Even
with the changed test, the real intervals are still some random values
above (and not far away from) 200ms.. We are saying about 200ms
intervals just for convenience.
Thanks,
Fengguang
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:20:05PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> From: Wanpneg Li <liwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Since bdi_update_bandwidth function should estimate write bandwidth at 200ms intervals,
> so the time is bdi->bw_time_stamp + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL == jiffies, but
> if use time_is_after_eq_jiffies intervals will be bdi->bw_time_stamp +
> BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL + 1.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/page-writeback.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
> index c833bf0..099e225 100644
> --- a/mm/page-writeback.c
> +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
> @@ -1032,7 +1032,7 @@ static void bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
> unsigned long bdi_dirty,
> unsigned long start_time)
> {
> - if (time_is_after_eq_jiffies(bdi->bw_time_stamp + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL))
> + if (time_is_after_jiffies(bdi->bw_time_stamp + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL))
> return;
> spin_lock(&bdi->wb.list_lock);
> __bdi_update_bandwidth(bdi, thresh, bg_thresh, dirty,
> --
> 1.7.9.5
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