From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH block/for-4.0-fixes] writeback: add missing INITIAL_JIFFIES init in global_update_bandwidth()
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 08:38:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F726ED.4010801@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150304153743.GH3122@htj.duckdns.org>
On 03/04/2015 08:37 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Subject: writeback: add missing INITIAL_JIFFIES init in global_update_bandwidth()
>
> global_update_bandwidth() uses static variable update_time as the
> timestamp for the last update but forgets to initialize it to
> INITIALIZE_JIFFIES.
>
> This means that global_dirty_limit will be 5 mins into the future on
> 32bit and some large amount jiffies into the past on 64bit. This
> isn't critical as the only effect is that global_dirty_limit won't be
> updated for the first 5 mins after booting on 32bit machines,
> especially given the auxiliary nature of global_dirty_limit's role -
> protecting against global dirty threshold's sudden dips; however, it
> does lead to unintended suboptimal behavior. Fix it.
>
> Fixes: c42843f2f0bb ("writeback: introduce smoothed global dirty limit")
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> Added the "fixes" tag. Jens, can you please route this one?
Yup will do, thanks Tejun.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-04 15:22 [PATCH block/for-4.0-fixes] writeback: add missing INITIAL_JIFFIES init in global_update_bandwidth() Tejun Heo
2015-03-04 15:30 ` Jan Kara
2015-03-04 15:31 ` Jens Axboe
2015-03-04 15:37 ` Tejun Heo
2015-03-04 15:38 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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