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authorDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2009-09-20 05:55:36 -0700
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2009-09-20 05:55:36 -0700
commit6469f540ea37d53db089c8fea9c0c77a3d9353d4 (patch)
tree1dc9dc077150d57f4424cae49e711b5dd6e903a1 /net/sunrpc/timer.c
parent304e6d5fe294b80e6d3107f99ec241816390ebcc (diff)
parent78f28b7c555359c67c2a0d23f7436e915329421e (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts: drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c Merged in order that I can apply the Nomadik nand/onenand support patches.
Diffstat (limited to 'net/sunrpc/timer.c')
-rw-r--r--net/sunrpc/timer.c45
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/timer.c b/net/sunrpc/timer.c
index 31becbf0926..dd824341c34 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/timer.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/timer.c
@@ -25,8 +25,13 @@
#define RPC_RTO_INIT (HZ/5)
#define RPC_RTO_MIN (HZ/10)
-void
-rpc_init_rtt(struct rpc_rtt *rt, unsigned long timeo)
+/**
+ * rpc_init_rtt - Initialize an RPC RTT estimator context
+ * @rt: context to initialize
+ * @timeo: initial timeout value, in jiffies
+ *
+ */
+void rpc_init_rtt(struct rpc_rtt *rt, unsigned long timeo)
{
unsigned long init = 0;
unsigned i;
@@ -43,12 +48,16 @@ rpc_init_rtt(struct rpc_rtt *rt, unsigned long timeo)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpc_init_rtt);
-/*
+/**
+ * rpc_update_rtt - Update an RPC RTT estimator context
+ * @rt: context to update
+ * @timer: timer array index (request type)
+ * @m: recent actual RTT, in jiffies
+ *
* NB: When computing the smoothed RTT and standard deviation,
* be careful not to produce negative intermediate results.
*/
-void
-rpc_update_rtt(struct rpc_rtt *rt, unsigned timer, long m)
+void rpc_update_rtt(struct rpc_rtt *rt, unsigned timer, long m)
{
long *srtt, *sdrtt;
@@ -79,21 +88,25 @@ rpc_update_rtt(struct rpc_rtt *rt, unsigned timer, long m)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpc_update_rtt);
-/*
- * Estimate rto for an nfs rpc sent via. an unreliable datagram.
- * Use the mean and mean deviation of rtt for the appropriate type of rpc
- * for the frequent rpcs and a default for the others.
- * The justification for doing "other" this way is that these rpcs
- * happen so infrequently that timer est. would probably be stale.
- * Also, since many of these rpcs are
- * non-idempotent, a conservative timeout is desired.
+/**
+ * rpc_calc_rto - Provide an estimated timeout value
+ * @rt: context to use for calculation
+ * @timer: timer array index (request type)
+ *
+ * Estimate RTO for an NFS RPC sent via an unreliable datagram. Use
+ * the mean and mean deviation of RTT for the appropriate type of RPC
+ * for frequently issued RPCs, and a fixed default for the others.
+ *
+ * The justification for doing "other" this way is that these RPCs
+ * happen so infrequently that timer estimation would probably be
+ * stale. Also, since many of these RPCs are non-idempotent, a
+ * conservative timeout is desired.
+ *
* getattr, lookup,
* read, write, commit - A+4D
* other - timeo
*/
-
-unsigned long
-rpc_calc_rto(struct rpc_rtt *rt, unsigned timer)
+unsigned long rpc_calc_rto(struct rpc_rtt *rt, unsigned timer)
{
unsigned long res;