On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 08:33, Carsten Otte wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > This is a lot of code for a very special case.
> >
> >Could you try to put all the xip code into a separate file, e.g. mm/xip.c
> >that's only built when CONFIG_XIP is set? It would probably require
> >duplicating a little more code if you want clean interfaces, e.g. probably
> >a separate set of generic operations.
> >
> >
> >
> Indeed that seems reasonable. There is no exact reason to have
> this built into a kernel on a platform that does not have a bdev
> for this. On the other hand, I believe the code should stay in
> filemap.c, because it fits there conceptually. And I personally
> dislike #ifdef in the middle of a file.
While I agree with your reasoning, since you are affecting very hot
code path for every architecture, irrespective of "bdev" support
for this - you may want to look into some how eliminating few
function pointer de-refs and checks for those who don't care.
(#ifdef, unlikely(), or some arch & config magic).
To be honest, that file is already complicated enough - every time
I look at it my head hurts :(
Thanks,
Badari
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