Re: [PATCH 08/17] ioprio: Add a macro named NICE_TO_IOPRIO.

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 06:09:16PM +0800, Dongsheng Yang wrote:
> As the task nice value is in [-20, 19] and the io priority is in [0, 7],
> and the convert method from niceval to ioprio is implemented with an
> opened code in task_nice_ioprio().
> 
> This patch move the implementation to a macro NICE_TO_IOPRIO, making
> it more readable and modular.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/ioprio.h | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/ioprio.h b/include/linux/ioprio.h
> index beb9ce1..c0faa0b 100644
> --- a/include/linux/ioprio.h
> +++ b/include/linux/ioprio.h
> @@ -18,6 +18,11 @@
>  #define ioprio_valid(mask)	(IOPRIO_PRIO_CLASS((mask)) != IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE)
>  
>  /*
> + * Convert the nice value [19,-20] to io priority value [0,7].
> + */
> +#define NICE_TO_IOPRIO(nice)	(nice_to_rlimit(nice) / 5)
> +
> +/*
>   * These are the io priority groups as implemented by CFQ. RT is the realtime
>   * class, it always gets premium service. BE is the best-effort scheduling
>   * class, the default for any process. IDLE is the idle scheduling class, it
> @@ -52,7 +57,7 @@ enum {
>   */
>  static inline int task_nice_ioprio(struct task_struct *task)
>  {
> -	return (task_nice(task) + 20) / 5;
> +	return NICE_TO_IOPRIO(task_nice(task));
>  }

I'm still not seeing the point of adding that macro; if you want more
documentation; just add the comment.