Re: [PATCH v7 3/3] io_uring: enable per-io hinting capability

Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.aio.general,gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.linux.kernel.io-uring,gmane.linux.block
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9/30/24 11:13 AM, Kanchan Joshi wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/rw_hint.h b/include/linux/rw_hint.h
> index 309ca72f2dfb..f4373a71ffed 100644
> --- a/include/linux/rw_hint.h
> +++ b/include/linux/rw_hint.h
> @@ -21,4 +21,28 @@ enum rw_hint {
>   static_assert(sizeof(enum rw_hint) == 1);
>   #endif
>   
> +#define	WRITE_LIFE_INVALID	(RWH_WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME + 1)
> +
> +static inline bool rw_hint_valid(u64 hint)
> +{
> +	BUILD_BUG_ON(WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET != RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET);
> +	BUILD_BUG_ON(WRITE_LIFE_NONE != RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NONE);
> +	BUILD_BUG_ON(WRITE_LIFE_SHORT != RWH_WRITE_LIFE_SHORT);
> +	BUILD_BUG_ON(WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM != RWH_WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM);
> +	BUILD_BUG_ON(WRITE_LIFE_LONG != RWH_WRITE_LIFE_LONG);
> +	BUILD_BUG_ON(WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME != RWH_WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME);
> +
> +	switch (hint) {
> +	case RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET:
> +	case RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NONE:
> +	case RWH_WRITE_LIFE_SHORT:
> +	case RWH_WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM:
> +	case RWH_WRITE_LIFE_LONG:
> +	case RWH_WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME:
> +		return true;
> +	default:
> +		return false;
> +	}
> +}

Moving a function that is not in the hot path from a .c file to a .h
file is wrong. This increases the kernel size, slows down compilation
and makes implementation details visible to callers that should not have
access to these implementation details.

Bart.

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