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authorJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>2009-04-21 07:25:04 +0200
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-04-22 08:35:11 +0200
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cfq-iosched: make seek_mean converge more quickly
Right now, depending on the first sector to which a process issues I/O, the seek time may start out way out of whack. So make sure we start with 0 sectors in seek, instead of the offset of the first request issued. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/cfq-iosched.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
index 0d3b70de3d80..0eb4aff9df68 100644
--- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
@@ -1908,7 +1908,9 @@ cfq_update_io_seektime(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_io_context *cic,
sector_t sdist;
u64 total;
- if (cic->last_request_pos < rq->sector)
+ if (!cic->last_request_pos)
+ sdist = 0;
+ else if (cic->last_request_pos < rq->sector)
sdist = rq->sector - cic->last_request_pos;
else
sdist = cic->last_request_pos - rq->sector;