linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] iscsi-target merge for v3.1-rc1

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Message-Id: <20110726004335.c6f26c5c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:43:35 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>,
	target-devel <target-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Andy Grover <agrover@...hat.com>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
	Roland Dreier <roland@...estorage.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Boaz Harrosh <openosd@...il.com>,
	Mike Christie <michaelc@...wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] iscsi-target merge for v3.1-rc1

On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:09:40 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Just a simple
> 
> #define DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL(ll,d) \
>   ({ unsigned long long _tmp = (ll)+(d)-1; do_div(_tmp, d); _tmp; })
> 
> looks like it would work and be simpler. Avoid the conditional, do the
> same "add 'd-1' thing as the regular ROUND_UP().
> 

We might end up needing a DIV_ROUND_UP_SECTOR_T because that guy's
type/size is Kconfigurable.

otoh DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL won't have many callsites - the occasional
conversion from UL to ULL then back to UL wouldn't kill us.  Unless
there be subtle problems with such a conversion.

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