Re: [PATCH] cfq-iosched: fix slice_left calculation

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Thu, Nov 10 2005, Tejun Heo wrote:
> When cfq slice expires, remainder of slice is calculated and stored in
> cfqq->slice_left.  Current code calculates the opposite of remainder -
> how many jiffies the cfqq has used past slice end.  This patch fixes
> the bug.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
> 
> diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
> --- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
> +++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
> @@ -861,8 +861,8 @@ __cfq_slice_expired(struct cfq_data *cfq
>  	 * store what was left of this slice, if the queue idled out
>  	 * or was preempted
>  	 */
> -	if (time_after(now, cfqq->slice_end))
> -		cfqq->slice_left = now - cfqq->slice_end;
> +	if (time_after(cfqq->slice_end, now))
> +		cfqq->slice_left = cfqq->slice_end - now;
>  	else
>  		cfqq->slice_left = 0;

That looks more correct, good spotting. Applied.

-- 
Jens Axboe