Re: [PATCH] f2fs: introduce DEFAULT_IO_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES

[Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>]

Hi Geert,

On Thu, 2019-12-26 at 11:43 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Vyacheslav,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 10:58 AM Vyacheslav Dubeyko <
> slava@dubeyko.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2019-12-23 at 09:41 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 5:01 AM Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > As Geert Uytterhoeven reported:
> > > > 
> > > > for parameter HZ/50 in congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);
> > > > 
> > > > On some platforms, HZ can be less than 50, then unexpected 0
> > > > timeout
> > > > jiffies will be set in congestion_wait().
> > 
> > It looks like that HZ could have various value on diferent
> > platforms.
> > So, why does it need to divide HZ on 50? Does it really necessary?
> > Could it be used HZ only without the division operation?
> 
> A timeout of HZ means 1 second.
> HZ/50 means 20 ms, but has the risk of being zero, if HZ < 50.
> 
> If you want to use a timeout of 20 ms, you best use
> msecs_to_jiffies(20),
> as that takes care of the special cases, and never returns 0.
> 

The msecs_to_jiffies(20) looks much better for my taste. Maybe, we
could use this as solution of the issue?

Thanks,
Viacheslav Dubeyko.

> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
>