Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem?

[Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>]

Jesper Juhl wrote:
> [...]
>> #include <linux/nfs_fs.h>
>> #include <linux/nfs_fs_sb.h>
>>@@ -278,6 +279,7 @@
>> 	char *fs_names = __getname();
>> 	char *p;
>> 	char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
>>+	int tryagain = 20;
>> 
> 
> Ok, I'm nitpicking here, but why int and not short? are we likely to ever
> want to wait for more than 2 minutes? and if we want to wait ~3min, then
> unsigned short should do just fine (and unsigned would even be logical
> since negative retry value doesn't make any sense)....

Usually it is better to use int's instead of short's because memory 
accesses for CPU word size data are faster.

With some CPUs, decrementing a short will probably involve reading a int 
from memory, updating only the correct section of it, and then writing 
an int. It is only worth the save if you're trying to make a very used 
struct have a good 2^N size, or something like that.

Of course, things will get more complex with data caches, bus sizes, 
etc., but I think the premise that the CPU will be more confortable 
handling its native data size still holds.

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