Re: [PATCH 2/3] cfq-iosched: Implement a new tunable group_idle
From: Divyesh Shah
Date: Mon Jul 19 2010 - 16:55:26 EST
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> @@ -3420,7 +3453,10 @@ static void cfq_completed_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
> * the queue.
> */
> if (cfq_should_wait_busy(cfqd, cfqq)) {
> - cfqq->slice_end = jiffies + cfqd->cfq_slice_idle;
> + unsigned long extend_sl = cfqd->cfq_slice_idle;
> + if (!cfqd->cfq_slice_idle)
> + extend_sl = cfqd->cfq_group_idle;
> + cfqq->slice_end = jiffies + extend_sl;
> cfq_mark_cfqq_wait_busy(cfqq);
> cfq_log_cfqq(cfqd, cfqq, "will busy wait");
> }
Vivek, I haven't looked at this particular code snippet for some time.
Can you tell me why we add the slice_idle (or w/ your change
extend_sl) to slice_end instead of arming the idle timer with that
amount of time?
-Divyesh
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