aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/drivers/md
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/md.c17
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index f3fed662f32..78c7418478d 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -3846,11 +3846,20 @@ static int is_mddev_idle(mddev_t *mddev)
curr_events = disk_stat_read(disk, sectors[0]) +
disk_stat_read(disk, sectors[1]) -
atomic_read(&disk->sync_io);
- /* Allow some slack between valud of curr_events and last_events,
- * as there are some uninteresting races.
+ /* The difference between curr_events and last_events
+ * will be affected by any new non-sync IO (making
+ * curr_events bigger) and any difference in the amount of
+ * in-flight syncio (making current_events bigger or smaller)
+ * The amount in-flight is currently limited to
+ * 32*64K in raid1/10 and 256*PAGE_SIZE in raid5/6
+ * which is at most 4096 sectors.
+ * These numbers are fairly fragile and should be made
+ * more robust, probably by enforcing the
+ * 'window size' that md_do_sync sort-of uses.
+ *
* Note: the following is an unsigned comparison.
*/
- if ((curr_events - rdev->last_events + 32) > 64) {
+ if ((curr_events - rdev->last_events + 4096) > 8192) {
rdev->last_events = curr_events;
idle = 0;
}
@@ -4109,7 +4118,7 @@ static void md_do_sync(mddev_t *mddev)
if (currspeed > sysctl_speed_limit_min) {
if ((currspeed > sysctl_speed_limit_max) ||
!is_mddev_idle(mddev)) {
- msleep(250);
+ msleep(500);
goto repeat;
}
}