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block, bfq: lower-bound the estimated peak rate to 1
If a storage device handled by BFQ happens to be slower than 7.5 KB/s for a certain amount of time (in the order of a second), then the estimated peak rate of the device, maintained in BFQ, becomes equal to 0. The reason is the limited precision with which the rate is represented (details on the range of representable values in the comments introduced by this commit). This leads to a division-by-zero error where the estimated peak rate is used as divisor. Such a type of failure has been reported in [1]. This commit addresses this issue by: 1. Lower-bounding the estimated peak rate to 1 2. Adding and improving comments on the range of rates representable [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2739205.html Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
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