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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-22 06:06:51 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-22 06:06:51 +0200
commit8b53b57576292b92b27769f9e213df19b6e57786 (patch)
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Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/pat
Conflicts: arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/find.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/find.c b/fs/ubifs/find.c
index 10394c548367..adee7b5ddeab 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/find.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/find.c
@@ -290,9 +290,14 @@ int ubifs_find_dirty_leb(struct ubifs_info *c, struct ubifs_lprops *ret_lp,
idx_lp = idx_heap->arr[0];
sum = idx_lp->free + idx_lp->dirty;
/*
- * Since we reserve twice as more space for the index than it
+ * Since we reserve thrice as much space for the index than it
* actually takes, it does not make sense to pick indexing LEBs
- * with less than half LEB of dirty space.
+ * with less than, say, half LEB of dirty space. May be half is
+ * not the optimal boundary - this should be tested and
+ * checked. This boundary should determine how much we use
+ * in-the-gaps to consolidate the index comparing to how much
+ * we use garbage collector to consolidate it. The "half"
+ * criteria just feels to be fine.
*/
if (sum < min_space || sum < c->half_leb_size)
idx_lp = NULL;