[PATCH 27/27] direct-io: remove random prefetches

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>]

Randomly poking into block device internals for manual prefetches isn't
exactly a very maintainable thing to do.  And none of the performance
criticil direct I/O implementations still use this library function
anyway, so just drop it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
 fs/direct-io.c | 32 ++++----------------------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c
index aef06e607b405..840752006f601 100644
--- a/fs/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/direct-io.c
@@ -1115,11 +1115,10 @@ static inline int drop_refcount(struct dio *dio)
  * individual fields and will generate much worse code. This is important
  * for the whole file.
  */
-static inline ssize_t
-do_blockdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode,
-                     struct block_device *bdev, struct iov_iter *iter,
-                     get_block_t get_block, dio_iodone_t end_io,
-                     dio_submit_t submit_io, int flags)
+ssize_t __blockdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode,
+               struct block_device *bdev, struct iov_iter *iter,
+               get_block_t get_block, dio_iodone_t end_io,
+               dio_submit_t submit_io, int flags)
 {
        unsigned i_blkbits = READ_ONCE(inode->i_blkbits);
        unsigned blkbits = i_blkbits;
@@ -1334,29 +1333,6 @@ do_blockdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode 
*inode,
        kmem_cache_free(dio_cache, dio);
        return retval;
 }
-
-ssize_t __blockdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode,
-                            struct block_device *bdev, struct iov_iter *iter,
-                            get_block_t get_block,
-                            dio_iodone_t end_io, dio_submit_t submit_io,
-                            int flags)
-{
-       /*
-        * The block device state is needed in the end to finally
-        * submit everything.  Since it's likely to be cache cold
-        * prefetch it here as first thing to hide some of the
-        * latency.
-        *
-        * Attempt to prefetch the pieces we likely need later.
-        */
-       prefetch(&bdev->bd_disk->part_tbl);
-       prefetch(bdev->bd_disk->queue);
-       prefetch((char *)bdev->bd_disk->queue + SMP_CACHE_BYTES);
-
-       return do_blockdev_direct_IO(iocb, inode, bdev, iter, get_block,
-                                    end_io, submit_io, flags);
-}
-
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__blockdev_direct_IO);
 
 static __init int dio_init(void)
-- 
2.30.2