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Filipe Manana
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It's quite hard and unreadable the way the rule checks are organized in
should_cow_block(). We have a single if statement that returns 0 (false)
and it checks several conditions, with one them being a negated compound
condition which is particularly hard to reason immediately.
Improve on this by using multiple if statements, each checking a single
condition and returning immediately. Also change the return type from an
integer to a boolean, since all we need is to return true or false.
At least on x86_64 with Debian's gcc 14.2.0-19, this also reduces the
object code size by 64 bytes.
Before this change:
$ size fs/btrfs/btrfs.ko
text data bss dec hex filename
1913327 161567 15592 2090486 1fe5f6 fs/btrfs/btrfs.ko
After this change:
$ size fs/btrfs/btrfs.ko
text data bss dec hex filename
1913263 161567 15592 2090422 1fe5b6 fs/btrfs/btrfs.ko
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Linux kernel
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