On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 10:15:18PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 08:21:37PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > If a filesystem has a realtime device or an external log device, the > > media scan can start up a separate readverify controller (and workqueue) > > to handle that. Each of those controllers can call progress_add, so we > > need to bump up nr_threads so that the progress reports controller knows > > to make its ptvar big enough to handle all these threads. > > Maybe add a comment to the code stating this? /* * Each read-verify pool starts a thread pool, and each worker thread * can contribute to the progress counter. Hence we need to set * nr_threads appropriately to handle that many threads. */ *nr_threads = disk_heads(ctx->datadev); if (ctx->rtdev) *nr_threads += disk_heads(ctx->rtdev); if (ctx->logdev) *nr_threads += disk_heads(ctx->logdev); --D