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cfq-iosched: make seek_mean converge more quickly

Right now, depending on the first sector to which a process issues I/O,
the seek time may start out way out of whack. So make sure we start
with 0 sectors in seek, instead of the offset of the first request
issued.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Jeff Moyer 16 years ago
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block/cfq-iosched.c

@@ -1908,7 +1908,9 @@ cfq_update_io_seektime(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_io_context *cic,
 	sector_t sdist;
 	u64 total;
 
-	if (cic->last_request_pos < rq->sector)
+	if (!cic->last_request_pos)
+		sdist = 0;
+	else if (cic->last_request_pos < rq->sector)
 		sdist = rq->sector - cic->last_request_pos;
 	else
 		sdist = cic->last_request_pos - rq->sector;