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<entry>
<title>bcache: use disk_{start,end}_io_acct() to count I/O for bcache device</title>
<updated>2020-08-21T11:14:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Coly Li</name>
<email>colyli@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-28T13:59:20+00:00</published>
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commit c5be1f2c5bab1538aa29cd42e226d6b80391e3ff upstream.

This patch is a fix to patch "bcache: fix bio_{start,end}_io_acct with
proper device". The previous patch uses a hack to temporarily set
bi_disk to bcache device, which is mistaken too.

As Christoph suggests, this patch uses disk_{start,end}_io_acct() to
count I/O for bcache device in the correct way.

Fixes: 85750aeb748f ("bcache: use bio_{start,end}_io_acct")
Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c5be1f2c5bab1538aa29cd42e226d6b80391e3ff upstream.

This patch is a fix to patch "bcache: fix bio_{start,end}_io_acct with
proper device". The previous patch uses a hack to temporarily set
bi_disk to bcache device, which is mistaken too.

As Christoph suggests, this patch uses disk_{start,end}_io_acct() to
count I/O for bcache device in the correct way.

Fixes: 85750aeb748f ("bcache: use bio_{start,end}_io_acct")
Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: fix bio_{start,end}_io_acct with proper device</title>
<updated>2020-08-21T11:14:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Coly Li</name>
<email>colyli@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-25T12:00:39+00:00</published>
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commit a2f32ee8fd853cec8860f883d98afc3a339546de upstream.

Commit 85750aeb748f ("bcache: use bio_{start,end}_io_acct") moves the
io account code to the location after bio_set_dev(bio, dc-&gt;bdev) in
cached_dev_make_request(). Then the account is performed incorrectly on
backing device, indeed the I/O should be counted to bcache device like
/dev/bcache0.

With the mistaken I/O account, iostat does not display I/O counts for
bcache device and all the numbers go to backing device. In writeback
mode, the hard drive may have 340K+ IOPS which is impossible and wrong
for spinning disk.

This patch introduces bch_bio_start_io_acct() and bch_bio_end_io_acct(),
which switches bio-&gt;bi_disk to bcache device before calling
bio_start_io_acct() or bio_end_io_acct(). Now the I/Os are counted to
bcache device, and bcache device, cache device and backing device have
their correct I/O count information back.

Fixes: 85750aeb748f ("bcache: use bio_{start,end}_io_acct")
Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a2f32ee8fd853cec8860f883d98afc3a339546de upstream.

Commit 85750aeb748f ("bcache: use bio_{start,end}_io_acct") moves the
io account code to the location after bio_set_dev(bio, dc-&gt;bdev) in
cached_dev_make_request(). Then the account is performed incorrectly on
backing device, indeed the I/O should be counted to bcache device like
/dev/bcache0.

With the mistaken I/O account, iostat does not display I/O counts for
bcache device and all the numbers go to backing device. In writeback
mode, the hard drive may have 340K+ IOPS which is impossible and wrong
for spinning disk.

This patch introduces bch_bio_start_io_acct() and bch_bio_end_io_acct(),
which switches bio-&gt;bi_disk to bcache device before calling
bio_start_io_acct() or bio_end_io_acct(). Now the I/Os are counted to
bcache device, and bcache device, cache device and backing device have
their correct I/O count information back.

Fixes: 85750aeb748f ("bcache: use bio_{start,end}_io_acct")
Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-5.8/drivers-2020-06-01' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2020-06-02T22:37:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-02T22:37:03+00:00</published>
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Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
 "On top of the core changes, here are the block driver changes for this
  merge window:

   - NVMe changes:
        - NVMe over Fibre Channel protocol updates, which also reach
          over to drivers/scsi/lpfc (James Smart)
        - namespace revalidation support on the target (Anthony
          Iliopoulos)
        - gcc zero length array fix (Arnd Bergmann)
        - nvmet cleanups (Chaitanya Kulkarni)
        - misc cleanups and fixes (me, Keith Busch, Sagi Grimberg)
        - use a SRQ per completion vector (Max Gurtovoy)
        - fix handling of runtime changes to the queue count (Weiping
          Zhang)
        - t10 protection information support for nvme-rdma and
          nvmet-rdma (Israel Rukshin and Max Gurtovoy)
        - target side AEN improvements (Chaitanya Kulkarni)
        - various fixes and minor improvements all over, icluding the
          nvme part of the lpfc driver"

   - Floppy code cleanup series (Willy, Denis)

   - Floppy contention fix (Jiri)

   - Loop CONFIGURE support (Martijn)

   - bcache fixes/improvements (Coly, Joe, Colin)

   - q-&gt;queuedata cleanups (Christoph)

   - Get rid of ioctl_by_bdev (Christoph, Stefan)

   - md/raid5 allocation fixes (Coly)

   - zero length array fixes (Gustavo)

   - swim3 task state fix (Xu)"

* tag 'for-5.8/drivers-2020-06-01' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (166 commits)
  bcache: configure the asynchronous registertion to be experimental
  bcache: asynchronous devices registration
  bcache: fix refcount underflow in bcache_device_free()
  bcache: Convert pr_&lt;level&gt; uses to a more typical style
  bcache: remove redundant variables i and n
  lpfc: Fix return value in __lpfc_nvme_ls_abort
  lpfc: fix axchg pointer reference after free and double frees
  lpfc: Fix pointer checks and comments in LS receive refactoring
  nvme: set dma alignment to qword
  nvmet: cleanups the loop in nvmet_async_events_process
  nvmet: fix memory leak when removing namespaces and controllers concurrently
  nvmet-rdma: add metadata/T10-PI support
  nvmet: add metadata support for block devices
  nvmet: add metadata/T10-PI support
  nvme: add Metadata Capabilities enumerations
  nvmet: rename nvmet_check_data_len to nvmet_check_transfer_len
  nvmet: rename nvmet_rw_len to nvmet_rw_data_len
  nvmet: add metadata characteristics for a namespace
  nvme-rdma: add metadata/T10-PI support
  nvme-rdma: introduce nvme_rdma_sgl structure
  ...
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Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
 "On top of the core changes, here are the block driver changes for this
  merge window:

   - NVMe changes:
        - NVMe over Fibre Channel protocol updates, which also reach
          over to drivers/scsi/lpfc (James Smart)
        - namespace revalidation support on the target (Anthony
          Iliopoulos)
        - gcc zero length array fix (Arnd Bergmann)
        - nvmet cleanups (Chaitanya Kulkarni)
        - misc cleanups and fixes (me, Keith Busch, Sagi Grimberg)
        - use a SRQ per completion vector (Max Gurtovoy)
        - fix handling of runtime changes to the queue count (Weiping
          Zhang)
        - t10 protection information support for nvme-rdma and
          nvmet-rdma (Israel Rukshin and Max Gurtovoy)
        - target side AEN improvements (Chaitanya Kulkarni)
        - various fixes and minor improvements all over, icluding the
          nvme part of the lpfc driver"

   - Floppy code cleanup series (Willy, Denis)

   - Floppy contention fix (Jiri)

   - Loop CONFIGURE support (Martijn)

   - bcache fixes/improvements (Coly, Joe, Colin)

   - q-&gt;queuedata cleanups (Christoph)

   - Get rid of ioctl_by_bdev (Christoph, Stefan)

   - md/raid5 allocation fixes (Coly)

   - zero length array fixes (Gustavo)

   - swim3 task state fix (Xu)"

* tag 'for-5.8/drivers-2020-06-01' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (166 commits)
  bcache: configure the asynchronous registertion to be experimental
  bcache: asynchronous devices registration
  bcache: fix refcount underflow in bcache_device_free()
  bcache: Convert pr_&lt;level&gt; uses to a more typical style
  bcache: remove redundant variables i and n
  lpfc: Fix return value in __lpfc_nvme_ls_abort
  lpfc: fix axchg pointer reference after free and double frees
  lpfc: Fix pointer checks and comments in LS receive refactoring
  nvme: set dma alignment to qword
  nvmet: cleanups the loop in nvmet_async_events_process
  nvmet: fix memory leak when removing namespaces and controllers concurrently
  nvmet-rdma: add metadata/T10-PI support
  nvmet: add metadata support for block devices
  nvmet: add metadata/T10-PI support
  nvme: add Metadata Capabilities enumerations
  nvmet: rename nvmet_check_data_len to nvmet_check_transfer_len
  nvmet: rename nvmet_rw_len to nvmet_rw_data_len
  nvmet: add metadata characteristics for a namespace
  nvme-rdma: add metadata/T10-PI support
  nvme-rdma: introduce nvme_rdma_sgl structure
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: use bio_{start,end}_io_acct</title>
<updated>2020-05-27T11:21:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-27T05:24:08+00:00</published>
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Switch bcache to use the nicer bio accounting helpers, and call the
routines where we also sample the start time to give coherent accounting
results.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Acked-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Switch bcache to use the nicer bio accounting helpers, and call the
routines where we also sample the start time to give coherent accounting
results.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Acked-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: Convert pr_&lt;level&gt; uses to a more typical style</title>
<updated>2020-05-27T11:19:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-27T04:01:52+00:00</published>
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Remove the trailing newline from the define of pr_fmt and add newlines
to the uses.

Miscellanea:

o Convert bch_bkey_dump from multiple uses of pr_err to pr_cont
  as the earlier conversion was inappropriate done causing multiple
  lines to be emitted where only a single output line was desired
o Use vsprintf extension %pV in bch_cache_set_error to avoid multiple
  line output where only a single line output was desired
o Coalesce formats

Fixes: 6ae63e3501c4 ("bcache: replace printk() by pr_*() routines")

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Remove the trailing newline from the define of pr_fmt and add newlines
to the uses.

Miscellanea:

o Convert bch_bkey_dump from multiple uses of pr_err to pr_cont
  as the earlier conversion was inappropriate done causing multiple
  lines to be emitted where only a single output line was desired
o Use vsprintf extension %pV in bch_cache_set_error to avoid multiple
  line output where only a single line output was desired
o Coalesce formats

Fixes: 6ae63e3501c4 ("bcache: replace printk() by pr_*() routines")

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: remove a duplicate -&gt;make_request_fn assignment</title>
<updated>2020-04-25T15:45:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-25T07:53:34+00:00</published>
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The make_request_fn pointer should only be assigned by blk_alloc_queue.
Fix a left over manual initialization.

Fixes: ff27668ce809 ("bcache: pass the make_request methods to blk_queue_make_request")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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The make_request_fn pointer should only be assigned by blk_alloc_queue.
Fix a left over manual initialization.

Fixes: ff27668ce809 ("bcache: pass the make_request methods to blk_queue_make_request")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: pass the make_request methods to blk_queue_make_request</title>
<updated>2020-03-27T16:23:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-27T08:30:10+00:00</published>
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bcache is the only driver not actually passing its make_request
methods to blk_queue_make_request, but instead just sets them up
manually a little later.  Make bcache follow the common way of
setting up make_request based queues.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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bcache is the only driver not actually passing its make_request
methods to blk_queue_make_request, but instead just sets them up
manually a little later.  Make bcache follow the common way of
setting up make_request based queues.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: add readahead cache policy options via sysfs interface</title>
<updated>2020-02-01T14:55:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Coly Li</name>
<email>colyli@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-01T14:42:33+00:00</published>
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In year 2007 high performance SSD was still expensive, in order to
save more space for real workload or meta data, the readahead I/Os
for non-meta data was bypassed and not cached on SSD.

In now days, SSD price drops a lot and people can find larger size
SSD with more comfortable price. It is unncessary to alway bypass
normal readahead I/Os to save SSD space for now.

This patch adds options for readahead data cache policies via sysfs
file /sys/block/bcache&lt;N&gt;/readahead_cache_policy, the options are,
- "all": cache all readahead data I/Os.
- "meta-only": only cache meta data, and bypass other regular I/Os.

If users want to make bcache continue to only cache readahead request
for metadata and bypass regular data readahead, please set "meta-only"
to this sysfs file. By default, bcache will back to cache all read-
ahead requests now.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Wheeler &lt;bcache@linux.ewheeler.net&gt;
Cc: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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In year 2007 high performance SSD was still expensive, in order to
save more space for real workload or meta data, the readahead I/Os
for non-meta data was bypassed and not cached on SSD.

In now days, SSD price drops a lot and people can find larger size
SSD with more comfortable price. It is unncessary to alway bypass
normal readahead I/Os to save SSD space for now.

This patch adds options for readahead data cache policies via sysfs
file /sys/block/bcache&lt;N&gt;/readahead_cache_policy, the options are,
- "all": cache all readahead data I/Os.
- "meta-only": only cache meta data, and bypass other regular I/Os.

If users want to make bcache continue to only cache readahead request
for metadata and bypass regular data readahead, please set "meta-only"
to this sysfs file. By default, bcache will back to cache all read-
ahead requests now.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Wheeler &lt;bcache@linux.ewheeler.net&gt;
Cc: Michael Lyle &lt;mlyle@lyle.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: deleted code comments for dead code in bch_data_insert_keys()</title>
<updated>2019-11-13T22:42:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Coly Li</name>
<email>colyli@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-13T08:03:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=41fa4deef90ba1cd048b740317f50b9decae9fc8'/>
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<content type='text'>
In request.c:bch_data_insert_keys(), there is code comment for a piece
of dead code. This patch deletes the dead code and its code comment
since they are useless in practice.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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In request.c:bch_data_insert_keys(), there is code comment for a piece
of dead code. This patch deletes the dead code and its code comment
since they are useless in practice.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: Clean up bch_get_congested()</title>
<updated>2019-04-24T16:56:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>George Spelvin</name>
<email>lkml@sdf.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-24T16:48:30+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
There are a few nits in this function.  They could in theory all
be separate patches, but that's probably taking small commits
too far.

1) I added a brief comment saying what it does.

2) I like to declare pointer parameters "const" where possible
   for documentation reasons.

3) It uses bitmap_weight(&amp;rand, BITS_PER_LONG) to compute the Hamming
weight of a 32-bit random number (giving a random integer with
mean 16 and variance 8).  Passing by reference in a 64-bit variable
is silly; just use hweight32().

4) Its helper function fract_exp_two is unnecessarily tangled.
Gcc can optimize the multiply by (1 &lt;&lt; x) to a shift, but it can
be written in a much more straightforward way at the cost of one
more bit of internal precision.  Some analysis reveals that this
bit is always available.

This shrinks the object code for fract_exp_two(x, 6) from 23 bytes:

0000000000000000 &lt;foo1&gt;:
   0:   89 f9                   mov    %edi,%ecx
   2:   c1 e9 06                shr    $0x6,%ecx
   5:   b8 01 00 00 00          mov    $0x1,%eax
   a:   d3 e0                   shl    %cl,%eax
   c:   83 e7 3f                and    $0x3f,%edi
   f:   d3 e7                   shl    %cl,%edi
  11:   c1 ef 06                shr    $0x6,%edi
  14:   01 f8                   add    %edi,%eax
  16:   c3                      retq

To 19:

0000000000000017 &lt;foo2&gt;:
  17:   89 f8                   mov    %edi,%eax
  19:   83 e0 3f                and    $0x3f,%eax
  1c:   83 c0 40                add    $0x40,%eax
  1f:   89 f9                   mov    %edi,%ecx
  21:   c1 e9 06                shr    $0x6,%ecx
  24:   d3 e0                   shl    %cl,%eax
  26:   c1 e8 06                shr    $0x6,%eax
  29:   c3                      retq

(Verified with 0 &lt;= frac_bits &lt;= 8, 0 &lt;= x &lt; 16&lt;&lt;frac_bits;
both versions produce the same output.)

5) And finally, the call to bch_get_congested() in check_should_bypass()
is separated from the use of the value by multiple tests which
could moot the need to compute it.  Move the computation down to
where it's needed.  This also saves a local register to hold the
computed value.

Signed-off-by: George Spelvin &lt;lkml@sdf.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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There are a few nits in this function.  They could in theory all
be separate patches, but that's probably taking small commits
too far.

1) I added a brief comment saying what it does.

2) I like to declare pointer parameters "const" where possible
   for documentation reasons.

3) It uses bitmap_weight(&amp;rand, BITS_PER_LONG) to compute the Hamming
weight of a 32-bit random number (giving a random integer with
mean 16 and variance 8).  Passing by reference in a 64-bit variable
is silly; just use hweight32().

4) Its helper function fract_exp_two is unnecessarily tangled.
Gcc can optimize the multiply by (1 &lt;&lt; x) to a shift, but it can
be written in a much more straightforward way at the cost of one
more bit of internal precision.  Some analysis reveals that this
bit is always available.

This shrinks the object code for fract_exp_two(x, 6) from 23 bytes:

0000000000000000 &lt;foo1&gt;:
   0:   89 f9                   mov    %edi,%ecx
   2:   c1 e9 06                shr    $0x6,%ecx
   5:   b8 01 00 00 00          mov    $0x1,%eax
   a:   d3 e0                   shl    %cl,%eax
   c:   83 e7 3f                and    $0x3f,%edi
   f:   d3 e7                   shl    %cl,%edi
  11:   c1 ef 06                shr    $0x6,%edi
  14:   01 f8                   add    %edi,%eax
  16:   c3                      retq

To 19:

0000000000000017 &lt;foo2&gt;:
  17:   89 f8                   mov    %edi,%eax
  19:   83 e0 3f                and    $0x3f,%eax
  1c:   83 c0 40                add    $0x40,%eax
  1f:   89 f9                   mov    %edi,%ecx
  21:   c1 e9 06                shr    $0x6,%ecx
  24:   d3 e0                   shl    %cl,%eax
  26:   c1 e8 06                shr    $0x6,%eax
  29:   c3                      retq

(Verified with 0 &lt;= frac_bits &lt;= 8, 0 &lt;= x &lt; 16&lt;&lt;frac_bits;
both versions produce the same output.)

5) And finally, the call to bch_get_congested() in check_should_bypass()
is separated from the use of the value by multiple tests which
could moot the need to compute it.  Move the computation down to
where it's needed.  This also saves a local register to hold the
computed value.

Signed-off-by: George Spelvin &lt;lkml@sdf.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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