[Patch 09/18] fs/logfs/gc.c

[Jörn Engel]

On Mon, 4 June 2007 00:07:36 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sunday 03 June 2007, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > +static long decay(long t0, long t, long theta)
> > +{
> > +       long shift, fac;
> > +
> > +       if (t >= 32*theta)
> > +               return 0;
> > +
> > +       shift = t/theta;
> > +       fac = theta - (t%theta)/2;
> > +       return (t0 >> shift) * fac / theta;
> > +}
> 
> I think it's confusion to work with 'long' arguments
> here. If you actually allow larger than 32 bit arguments,
> that means that the gc logic behaves differently on
> 32 and 64 bit CPUs, which I don't think is what you
> intended.

Different behaviour would be fine.  This function will be used to pick
good candidates for garbage collection.  If one segment will get chosen
over another depending on BITS_PER_LONG, either one would have been a
good candidate anyway.

Hmm.  Maybe I should s/32/BITS_PER_LONG/ in the function.

> Also, can any of the arguments be negative? How about
> making them all explicit u32 and u64 variables?

That would make sense, yes.

Jörn

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