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Patch "virtio-blk: remove unneeded "likely" statements" has been added to the 5.14-stable tree

DISCUSSION Michael S. Tsirkin 2 participants 3 messages Oct 18, 2021 1 message not in the archive Stable branch

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Quoted 29 lines · On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 12:02:30PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

virtio-blk: remove unneeded "likely" statements

to the 5.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
virtio-blk-remove-unneeded-likely-statements.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 6105d1fe6f4c24ce8c13e2e6568b16b76e04983d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Max Gurtovoy <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2021 11:57:17 +0300
Subject: virtio-blk: remove unneeded "likely" statements

From: Max Gurtovoy <[email protected]>

commit 6105d1fe6f4c24ce8c13e2e6568b16b76e04983d upstream.

Usually we use "likely/unlikely" to optimize the fast path. Remove redundant "likely/unlikely" statements in the control path to simplify the code and make it easier to read.

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It's harmless but doesn't seem appropriate for stable.

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---
 drivers/block/virtio_blk.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
drivers/block/virtio_blk.c +2 -2
@@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ static int virtblk_probe(struct virtio_d
 		goto out_free_vblk;
 
 	/* Default queue sizing is to fill the ring. */
-	if (likely(!virtblk_queue_depth)) {
+	if (!virtblk_queue_depth) {
 		queue_depth = vblk->vqs[0].vq->num_free;
 		/* ... but without indirect descs, we use 2 descs per req */
 		if (!virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC))
@@ -839,7 +839,7 @@ static int virtblk_probe(struct virtio_d
 	else
 		blk_size = queue_logical_block_size(q);
 
-	if (unlikely(blk_size < SECTOR_SIZE || blk_size > PAGE_SIZE)) {
+	if (blk_size < SECTOR_SIZE || blk_size > PAGE_SIZE) {
 		dev_err(&vdev->dev,
 			"block size is changed unexpectedly, now is %u\n",
 			blk_size);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-5.14/virtio-blk-remove-unneeded-likely-statements.patch

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Quoted 39 lines · Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoted 29 lines · On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 12:02:30PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

virtio-blk: remove unneeded "likely" statements

to the 5.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
virtio-blk-remove-unneeded-likely-statements.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 6105d1fe6f4c24ce8c13e2e6568b16b76e04983d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Max Gurtovoy <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2021 11:57:17 +0300
Subject: virtio-blk: remove unneeded "likely" statements

From: Max Gurtovoy <[email protected]>

commit 6105d1fe6f4c24ce8c13e2e6568b16b76e04983d upstream.

Usually we use "likely/unlikely" to optimize the fast path. Remove redundant "likely/unlikely" statements in the control path to simplify the code and make it easier to read.

Quoted 8 lines
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It's harmless but doesn't seem appropriate for stable.

Oh, I guess it's been picked because the next patch that was picked depends on it. OK then, sorry about the noise.

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---
 drivers/block/virtio_blk.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
drivers/block/virtio_blk.c +2 -2
@@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ static int virtblk_probe(struct virtio_d
 		goto out_free_vblk;
 
 	/* Default queue sizing is to fill the ring. */
-	if (likely(!virtblk_queue_depth)) {
+	if (!virtblk_queue_depth) {
 		queue_depth = vblk->vqs[0].vq->num_free;
 		/* ... but without indirect descs, we use 2 descs per req */
 		if (!virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC))
@@ -839,7 +839,7 @@ static int virtblk_probe(struct virtio_d
 	else
 		blk_size = queue_logical_block_size(q);
 
-	if (unlikely(blk_size < SECTOR_SIZE || blk_size > PAGE_SIZE)) {
+	if (blk_size < SECTOR_SIZE || blk_size > PAGE_SIZE) {
 		dev_err(&vdev->dev,
 			"block size is changed unexpectedly, now is %u\n",
 			blk_size);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-5.14/virtio-blk-remove-unneeded-likely-statements.patch

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Quoted 40 lines · Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoted 39 lines · Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoted 37 lines · On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 12:02:30PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

virtio-blk: remove unneeded "likely" statements

to the 5.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
virtio-blk-remove-unneeded-likely-statements.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 6105d1fe6f4c24ce8c13e2e6568b16b76e04983d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Max Gurtovoy <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2021 11:57:17 +0300
Subject: virtio-blk: remove unneeded "likely" statements

From: Max Gurtovoy <[email protected]>

commit 6105d1fe6f4c24ce8c13e2e6568b16b76e04983d upstream.

Usually we use "likely/unlikely" to optimize the fast path. Remove redundant "likely/unlikely" statements in the control path to simplify the code and make it easier to read.

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It's harmless but doesn't seem appropriate for stable.

Oh, I guess it's been picked because the next patch that was picked depends on it. OK then, sorry about the noise.

Yeah, that's why I grabbed it :)

thanks,

greg k-h