[PATCH 06/14] block: lift setting the readahead size into the block layer
Johannes Thumshirn
Johannes.Thumshirn at wdc.com
Wed Jul 22 03:13:54 EDT 2020
On 22/07/2020 08:27, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> + q->backing_dev_info->ra_pages =
> + max(queue_io_opt(q) * 2 / PAGE_SIZE, VM_READAHEAD_PAGES);
Dumb question, wouldn't a '>> PAGE_SHIFT' be better instead of a potentially
costly division?
Or aren't we caring at all as it's a) not in the fast-path and b) compilers
can optimize it to a shift?
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