Re: [PATCH v2] blkdev: Replace blksize_bits() with ilog2()

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Fri May 29 2020 - 16:27:35 EST


On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:11:00PM +0800, Kaitao Cheng wrote:
> There is a function named ilog2() exist which can replace blksize.
> The generated code will be shorter and more efficient on some
> architecture, such as arm64. And ilog2() can be optimized according
> to different architecture.

We'd get the same benefit from a smaller patch with just:

--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -1502,15 +1502,9 @@ static inline int blk_rq_aligned(struct request_queue *q, unsigned long addr,
return !(addr & alignment) && !(len & alignment);
}

-/* assumes size > 256 */
static inline unsigned int blksize_bits(unsigned int size)
{
- unsigned int bits = 8;
- do {
- bits++;
- size >>= 1;
- } while (size > 256);
- return bits;
+ return ilog2(size);
}

static inline unsigned int block_size(struct block_device *bdev)