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authorDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2008-09-01 11:32:13 +0100
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2008-09-01 11:32:13 +0100
commit9d7548d4ca3c52ecb58f098a32b0756cdf8f96ee (patch)
tree651f7058bbaa2d8b2855286380d614afcf505118 /fs/ubifs/find.c
parent31db6e9ea1dbdcf66b8227b4f7035dee1b1dd8c0 (diff)
parentbef69ea0dcce574a425feb0a5aa4c63dd108b9a6 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ubifs/find.c')
-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;