Re: [PATCH] writeback: prevent bandwidth calculation overflow

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 00:06 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:02:01AM +0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 23:44 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > > +               pause = HZ * pages_dirtied / (bw + 1);
> > 
> > Shouldn't that be using something like div64_u64 ?
> 
> OK, but a dumb question: gcc cannot handle this implicitly?

it could, but we chose not to implement the symbol it emits for these
things so as to cause pain.. that was still assuming the world of 32bit
computing was relevant and 64bit divides were expensive ;-)
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