Re: [PATCH] fs: align IOCB_* flags with RWF_* flags
From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Mon Sep 07 2020 - 16:15:22 EST
On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 12:08:10PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> We have a set of flags that are shared between the two and inherired
> in kiocb_set_rw_flags(), but we check and set these individually.
> Reorder the IOCB flags so that the bottom part of the space is synced
> with the RWF flag space, and then we can do them all in one mask and
> set operation.
>
> The only exception is RWF_SYNC, which needs to mark IOCB_SYNC and
> IOCB_DSYNC. Do that one separately.
>
> This shaves 15 bytes of text from kiocb_set_rw_flags() for me.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>