Re: [PATCH 2/5] writeback: dirty position control

From: Wu Fengguang
Date: Wed Aug 17 2011 - 08:35:20 EST


On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 08:03:56PM +0800, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 17-08-11 02:40:19, David Horner wrote:
> > I noticed a significant typo below (another of those thousand eyes,
> > thanks to Jan Kara's post that started ne looking) :
> >
> > > +static unsigned long bdi_position_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
> > > + unsigned long thresh,
> > ...
> > > + * For JBOD case, bdi_thresh (not bdi_dirty!) could fluctuate up to its
> > > + * own size, so move the slope over accordingly.
> > > + */
> > > + if (unlikely(bdi_thresh > thresh))
> > > + bdi_thresh = thresh;
> > > + /*
> > > + * scale global setpoint to bdi's:Â setpoint *= bdi_thresh / thresh
> > > + */
> > > + x = div_u64((u64)bdi_thresh << 16, thresh | 1);
> >
> > ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ ^
> > I believe should be
> >
> > ÂÂ x = div_u64((u64)bdi_thresh << 16, threshÂ+ 1);
> I've noticed this as well but it's mostly a consistency issue. 'thresh'
> is going to be large in practice so there's not much difference between
> thresh + 1 and thresh | 1.

Right :) Anyway I'll change it to thresh + 1.

Thanks,
Fengguang
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