return 0;
 }
 
-static int is_mddev_idle(mddev_t *mddev)
+static int is_mddev_idle(mddev_t *mddev, int init)
 {
        mdk_rdev_t * rdev;
        int idle;
-       long curr_events;
+       int curr_events;
 
        idle = 1;
        rcu_read_lock();
        rdev_for_each_rcu(rdev, mddev) {
                struct gendisk *disk = rdev->bdev->bd_contains->bd_disk;
-               curr_events = part_stat_read(&disk->part0, sectors[0]) +
-                               part_stat_read(&disk->part0, sectors[1]) -
-                               atomic_read(&disk->sync_io);
+               curr_events = (int)part_stat_read(&disk->part0, sectors[0]) +
+                             (int)part_stat_read(&disk->part0, sectors[1]) -
+                             atomic_read(&disk->sync_io);
                /* sync IO will cause sync_io to increase before the disk_stats
                 * as sync_io is counted when a request starts, and
                 * disk_stats is counted when it completes.
                 * always make curr_events less than last_events.
                 *
                 */
-               if (curr_events - rdev->last_events > 4096) {
+               if (init || curr_events - rdev->last_events > 64) {
                        rdev->last_events = curr_events;
                        idle = 0;
                }
               "(but not more than %d KB/sec) for %s.\n",
               speed_max(mddev), desc);
 
-       is_mddev_idle(mddev); /* this also initializes IO event counters */
+       is_mddev_idle(mddev, 1); /* this initializes IO event counters */
 
        io_sectors = 0;
        for (m = 0; m < SYNC_MARKS; m++) {
 
                if (currspeed > speed_min(mddev)) {
                        if ((currspeed > speed_max(mddev)) ||
-                                       !is_mddev_idle(mddev)) {
+                                       !is_mddev_idle(mddev, 0)) {
                                msleep(500);
                                goto repeat;
                        }