Strange automatic GC threshold ?
MikeW
mw_phil at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Mar 19 12:49:24 EDT 2007
Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund <at> transmode.se> writes:
>
> In jffs2_thread_should_wake() there is this test to
> wake up GC thread:
>
> if (c->nr_free_blocks + c->nr_erasing_blocks < c->resv_blocks_gctrigger &&
> (dirty > c->nospc_dirty_size))
>
> The && in the above if means that no matter how dirty the FS is, it wont
> trigger GC until there is a very low count of free blocks as well(24 in my
> case out of 1003). I wonder if that && should be a || instead?
>
> Jocke
In the interests of clarity and robustness to edits, there should
be ( ) around the comparison subexpression at any rate.
Regards,
MikeW
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