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From: MikeW <mw_phil@yahoo.co.uk>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Strange automatic GC threshold ?
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:49:24 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20070319T174627-836@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1174321009.26465.266.camel@gentoo-jocke.transmode.se

Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund <at> transmode.se> writes:

> 
> In jffs2_thread_should_wake() there is this test to
> wake up GC thread:
> 
> 	if (c->nr_free_blocks + c->nr_erasing_blocks < c->resv_blocks_gctrigger &&
> 			(dirty > c->nospc_dirty_size))
> 
> The && in the above if means that no matter how dirty the FS is, it wont
> trigger GC until there is a very low count of free blocks as well(24 in my
> case out of 1003). I wonder if that && should be a || instead?
> 
>  Jocke

In the interests of clarity and robustness to edits, there should
be (  ) around the comparison subexpression at any rate.

Regards,
MikeW

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-19 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-19 16:16 Strange automatic GC threshold ? Joakim Tjernlund
2007-03-19 16:49 ` MikeW [this message]
2007-03-19 17:03   ` Josh Boyer
2007-03-19 17:21     ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-03-19 17:35       ` Josh Boyer
2007-03-19 18:17         ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-03-19 18:53           ` Josh Boyer
2007-03-19 19:04             ` MikeW
2007-03-22 12:42             ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-03-19 18:23       ` MikeW

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