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SubjectRe: [PATCH 08/18] io-controller: idle for sometime on sync queue before expiring it
Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:30:38AM +0800, Gui Jianfeng wrote:
>> Vivek Goyal wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 03:56:38PM +0800, Gui Jianfeng wrote:
>>>> Vivek Goyal wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>> +ssize_t elv_fairness_store(struct request_queue *q, const char *name,
>>>>> + size_t count)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> + struct elv_fq_data *efqd;
>>>>> + unsigned int data;
>>>>> + unsigned long flags;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + char *p = (char *)name;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + data = simple_strtoul(p, &p, 10);
>>>>> +
>>>>> + if (data < 0)
>>>>> + data = 0;
>>>>> + else if (data > INT_MAX)
>>>>> + data = INT_MAX;
>>>> Hi Vivek,
>>>>
>>>> data might overflow on 64 bit systems. In addition, since "fairness" is nothing
>>>> more than a switch, just let it be.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
>>>> ---
>>> Hi Gui,
>>>
>>> How about following patch? Currently this should apply at the end of the
>>> patch series. If it looks good, I will merge the changes in higher level
>>> patches.
>> This patch seems good to me. Some trivial issues comment below.
>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Vivek
>>>
>>> o Previously common layer elevator parameters were appearing as request
>>> queue parameters in sysfs. But actually these are io scheduler parameters
>>> in hiearchical mode. Fix it.
>>>
>>> o Use macros to define multiple sysfs C functions doing the same thing. Code
>>> borrowed from CFQ. Helps reduce the number of lines of by 140.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
>> ... \
>>> +}
>>> +SHOW_FUNCTION(elv_fairness_show, efqd->fairness, 0);
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(elv_fairness_show);
>>> +SHOW_FUNCTION(elv_slice_idle_show, efqd->elv_slice_idle, 1);
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(elv_slice_idle_show);
>>> +SHOW_FUNCTION(elv_async_slice_idle_show, efqd->elv_async_slice_idle, 1);
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(elv_async_slice_idle_show);
>>> +SHOW_FUNCTION(elv_slice_sync_show, efqd->elv_slice[1], 1);
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(elv_slice_sync_show);
>>> +SHOW_FUNCTION(elv_slice_async_show, efqd->elv_slice[0], 1);
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(elv_slice_async_show);
>>> +#undef SHOW_FUNCTION
>>> +
>>> +#define STORE_FUNCTION(__FUNC, __PTR, MIN, MAX, __CONV) \
>>> +ssize_t __FUNC(struct elevator_queue *e, const char *page, size_t count) \
>>> +{ \
>>> + struct elv_fq_data *efqd = &e->efqd; \
>>> + unsigned int __data; \
>>> + int ret = elv_var_store(&__data, (page), count); \
>> Since simple_strtoul returns unsigned long, it's better to make __data
>> be that type.
>>
>
> I just took it from CFQ. BTW, what's the harm here in truncating unsigned
> long to int? Anyway for our variables we are not expecting any value
> bigger than unsigned int and if it is, we expect to truncate it?
>
>>> + if (__data < (MIN)) \
>>> + __data = (MIN); \
>>> + else if (__data > (MAX)) \
>>> + __data = (MAX); \
>>> + if (__CONV) \
>>> + *(__PTR) = msecs_to_jiffies(__data); \
>>> + else \
>>> + *(__PTR) = __data; \
>>> + return ret; \
>>> +}
>>> +STORE_FUNCTION(elv_fairness_store, &efqd->fairness, 0, 1, 0);
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(elv_fairness_store);
>>> +STORE_FUNCTION(elv_slice_idle_store, &efqd->elv_slice_idle, 0, UINT_MAX, 1);
>> Do we need to set an actual max limitation rather than UINT_MAX for these entries?
>
> Again these are the same values CFQ was using. Do you have a better upper
> limit in mind? Until and unless there is strong objection to UINT_MAX, we
> can stick to what CFQ has been doing so far.

Ok, I don't have strong opinion about the above things.

>
> Thanks
> Vivek
>
>
>

--
Regards
Gui Jianfeng



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