Re: [PATCH 07/22] ide-tape: struct idetape_tape_t: shorten member names v2

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Mon Feb 04 2008 - 20:16:29 EST


On Monday 04 February 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Shorten some member names not too aggressively since this driver might be gone
> anyway soon.
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/ide/ide-tape.c | 210 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
> 1 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 97 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
> index 126e8a9..0b5ccce 100644
> --- a/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
> +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c

[...]

> @@ -1583,7 +1579,8 @@ static void idetape_create_read_cmd(idetape_tape_t *tape, idetape_pc_t *pc, unsi
> pc->bh = bh;
> atomic_set(&bh->b_count, 0);
> pc->buffer = NULL;
> - pc->request_transfer = pc->buffer_size = length * tape->tape_block_size;
> + pc->buffer_size = length * tape->blk_size;
> + pc->request_transfer = length * tape->blk_size;
> if (pc->request_transfer == tape->stage_size)
> set_bit(PC_DMA_RECOMMENDED, &pc->flags);
> }
> @@ -1621,7 +1618,8 @@ static void idetape_create_write_cmd(idetape_tape_t *tape, idetape_pc_t *pc, uns
> pc->b_data = bh->b_data;
> pc->b_count = atomic_read(&bh->b_count);
> pc->buffer = NULL;
> - pc->request_transfer = pc->buffer_size = length * tape->tape_block_size;
> + pc->request_transfer = length * tape->blk_size;
> + pc->buffer_size = length * tape->blk_size;
> if (pc->request_transfer == tape->stage_size)
> set_bit(PC_DMA_RECOMMENDED, &pc->flags);
> }

for some reason gcc doesn't seem to optimize the new code as well as
the old one (=> driver size goes up instead of staying unchanged)

interdiff between original patch and merged version:

diff -u b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
--- b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@
/* Current character device data transfer direction */
u8 chrdev_dir;

- /* tape block size, usu. 512 or 1024 bytes */
+ /* tape block size, usually 512 or 1024 bytes */
unsigned short blk_size;
int user_bs_factor;

@@ -1580,8 +1580,8 @@
pc->bh = bh;
atomic_set(&bh->b_count, 0);
pc->buffer = NULL;
- pc->buffer_size = length * tape->blk_size;
- pc->request_transfer = length * tape->blk_size;
+ pc->buffer_size = length * tape->blk_size;
+ pc->request_transfer = pc->buffer_size;
if (pc->request_transfer == tape->stage_size)
set_bit(PC_DMA_RECOMMENDED, &pc->flags);
}
@@ -1619,8 +1619,8 @@
pc->b_data = bh->b_data;
pc->b_count = atomic_read(&bh->b_count);
pc->buffer = NULL;
- pc->request_transfer = length * tape->blk_size;
- pc->buffer_size = length * tape->blk_size;
+ pc->buffer_size = length * tape->blk_size;
+ pc->request_transfer = pc->buffer_size;
if (pc->request_transfer == tape->stage_size)
set_bit(PC_DMA_RECOMMENDED, &pc->flags);
}
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