Re: [PATCH 03/10] readahead: combine file_ra_state.prev_index/prev_offset into prev_pos

From: Fengguang Wu
Date: Tue Jul 24 2007 - 00:44:30 EST


On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 08:55:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:00:12 +0800 Fengguang Wu <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > @@ -342,11 +342,9 @@ ondemand_readahead(struct address_space
> > bool hit_readahead_marker, pgoff_t offset,
> > unsigned long req_size)
> > {
> > - int max; /* max readahead pages */
> > - int sequential;
> > -
> > - max = ra->ra_pages;
> > - sequential = (offset - ra->prev_index <= 1UL) || (req_size > max);
> > + int max = ra->ra_pages; /* max readahead pages */
> > + pgoff_t prev_offset;
> > + int sequential;
> >
> > /*
> > * It's the expected callback offset, assume sequential access.
> > @@ -360,6 +358,9 @@ ondemand_readahead(struct address_space
> > goto readit;
> > }
> >
> > + prev_offset = ra->prev_pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
> > + sequential = offset - prev_offset <= 1UL || req_size > max;
>
> It's a bit pointless using an opaque type for prev_offset here, and then
> encoding the knowledge that it is implemented as "unsigned long".
>
> It's a minor thing, but perhaps just "<= 1" would make more sense here.

Yeah, "<= 1" is OK. But the expression still requires pgoff_t to be
'unsigned' to work correctly.

So what about "<= 1U"?

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