Hi Vivek,

On 2017/3/4 3:53, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 09:20:44PM +0800, Hou Tao wrote:
> 
> [..]
>>> Frankly, vdisktime is in fixed-point precision shifted by
>>> CFQ_SERVICE_SHIFT so using CFQ_IDLE_DELAY does not make much sense in any
>>> case and just adding 1 to maximum vdisktime should be fine in all the
>>> cases. But that would require more testing whether I did not miss anything
>>> subtle.
> 
> I think even 1 will work. But in the beginning IIRC I took the idea
> from cpu scheduler. Adding a value bigger than 1 will allow you to add
> some other group later before this group. (If you want to give that group
> higher priority).
I still don't understand why using a value bigger than 1 will allow a later 
added
group to have a vdisktime less than the firstly added group. Could you explain 
it
in more detail ?

Regards,

Tao

> Thanks
> Vivek
> 
> .
> 

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