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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] jffs:2 Move erasing from write_super to GC.
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:45:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1266313535.11659.203.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFAA60FE5A.4E16F45A-ONC12576CC.003285C2-C12576CC.0033188F@transmode.se>

On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 10:18 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > Also, I think you should call it with count = 1, so that you would erase
> > only one EB at one iteration. This way you will let the GC thread do
> > other things with less latency as well.
> 
> If we reduce the count to 1 one might just as well remove count from
> jffs2_erase_pending_blocks() and make it just erase one block on each invocation,
> not sure I like that as it will be more overhead when erasing many blocks.
> 
> I figure erasing blocks is the most rewarding form of GC so there should
> be no need to reduce latency for other things, can you think of a reason?

Hmm, yes, you are right. Please, discard my "erase only 1" suggestion.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-16  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-15 16:03 [PATCH 1/2] jffs:2 Move erasing from write_super to GC Joakim Tjernlund
2010-02-15 16:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] s/jffs2_erase_pending_trigger/jffs2_garbage_collect_trigger/ Joakim Tjernlund
2010-02-16  8:59   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-02-16  9:32     ` Joakim Tjernlund
2010-02-16 14:27     ` Joakim Tjernlund
2010-02-17  7:18       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-02-17  7:35         ` Joakim Tjernlund
2010-02-17  7:48           ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-02-17  7:55             ` Joakim Tjernlund
2010-02-17  8:07               ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-02-17  8:19                 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2010-02-16  8:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] jffs:2 Move erasing from write_super to GC Artem Bityutskiy
2010-02-16  9:18   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2010-02-16  9:45     ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2010-02-16 11:49       ` Joakim Tjernlund
2010-02-16 11:59         ` Artem Bityutskiy

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