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From: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
To: Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: introduce DEFAULT_IO_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 17:38:42 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8a196bfe-666b-3d7b-e78b-8d3a9bcca978@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1cc2d2a093ebb15a1fc6eb96d683e918a8d5a7d4.camel@dubeyko.com>

On 2019/12/25 17:58, Vyacheslav Dubeyko wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-12-23 at 09:41 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> CC linux-fsdevel
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 5:01 AM Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> wrote:
>>> As Geert Uytterhoeven reported:
>>>
>>> for parameter HZ/50 in congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);
>>>
>>> On some platforms, HZ can be less than 50, then unexpected 0
>>> timeout
>>> jiffies will be set in congestion_wait().
>>>
> 
> 
> It looks like that HZ could have various value on diferent platforms.
> So, why does it need to divide HZ on 50? Does it really necessary?

I guess this code was copied from other filesystems, I have no idea why
we should use HZ/50 as timeout interval value.

> Could it be used HZ only without the division operation?

Actually, as Geert pointed out, we can handle that zeroed value parameter
inside congestion_wait() to cover all filesystems use cases.

Thanks,

> 
> Thanks,
> Viacheslav Dubeyko.
> 
> 
> .
> 


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-26  9:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-23  4:00 [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: introduce DEFAULT_IO_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES Chao Yu
2019-12-23  8:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-12-25  9:58   ` Vyacheslav Dubeyko
2019-12-26  9:38     ` Chao Yu [this message]
2019-12-26 10:43     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-12-26 13:08       ` Vyacheslav Dubeyko
2019-12-26 13:16         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-12-26  3:42   ` Chao Yu
2019-12-31 12:52   ` Matthew Wilcox

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