Re: [PATCH] mm: Define VM_(MAX|MIN)_READAHEAD via sizes.h constants

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Fri Dec 21 2018 - 08:24:27 EST


On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 02:53:14PM +0200, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> All users of the aformentioned macros convert them to kbytes by
> multplying. Instead, directly define the macros via the aptly named
> SZ_16K/SZ_128K ones. Also remove the now redundant comments explaining
> that VM_* are defined in kbytes it's obvious. No functional changes.

Actually, all users of these constants convert them to pages!

> + q->backing_dev_info->ra_pages = VM_MAX_READAHEAD / PAGE_SIZE;
> + sb->s_bdi->ra_pages = VM_MAX_READAHEAD / PAGE_SIZE;
> + sb->s_bdi->ra_pages = VM_MAX_READAHEAD / PAGE_SIZE;
> + sb->s_bdi->ra_pages = VM_MAX_READAHEAD / PAGE_SIZE;
> + sb->s_bdi->ra_pages = VM_MAX_READAHEAD / PAGE_SIZE;

> -#define VM_MAX_READAHEAD 128 /* kbytes */
> -#define VM_MIN_READAHEAD 16 /* kbytes (includes current page) */
> +#define VM_MAX_READAHEAD SZ_128K
> +#define VM_MIN_READAHEAD SZ_16K /* includes current page */

So perhaps:

#define VM_MAX_READAHEAD (SZ_128K / PAGE_SIZE)

VM_MIN_READAHEAD isn't used, so just delete it?