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[4/5] ratelimit: don't align wait time with slices

Message ID 20180213173429.19501-5-stefanha@redhat.com
State New
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Series [1/5] Add a git-publish configuration file | expand

Commit Message

Stefan Hajnoczi Feb. 13, 2018, 5:34 p.m. UTC 
From: Wolfgang Bumiller <w.bumiller@proxmox.com>

It is possible for rate limited writes to keep overshooting a slice's
quota by a tiny amount causing the slice-aligned waiting period to
effectively halve the rate.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Bumiller <w.bumiller@proxmox.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Message-id: 20180207071758.6818-1-w.bumiller@proxmox.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
---
 include/qemu/ratelimit.h | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/include/qemu/ratelimit.h b/include/qemu/ratelimit.h
index 8dece483f5..1b38291823 100644
--- a/include/qemu/ratelimit.h
+++ b/include/qemu/ratelimit.h
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@  typedef struct {
 static inline int64_t ratelimit_calculate_delay(RateLimit *limit, uint64_t n)
 {
     int64_t now = qemu_clock_get_ns(QEMU_CLOCK_REALTIME);
-    uint64_t delay_slices;
+    double delay_slices;
 
     assert(limit->slice_quota && limit->slice_ns);
 
@@ -55,12 +55,11 @@  static inline int64_t ratelimit_calculate_delay(RateLimit *limit, uint64_t n)
         return 0;
     }
 
-    /* Quota exceeded. Calculate the next time slice we may start
-     * sending data again. */
-    delay_slices = (limit->dispatched + limit->slice_quota - 1) /
-        limit->slice_quota;
+    /* Quota exceeded. Wait based on the excess amount and then start a new
+     * slice. */
+    delay_slices = (double)limit->dispatched / limit->slice_quota;
     limit->slice_end_time = limit->slice_start_time +
-        delay_slices * limit->slice_ns;
+        (uint64_t)(delay_slices * limit->slice_ns);
     return limit->slice_end_time - now;
 }