On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 06:52:58AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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> That the direct io function needed a valid bdev just for the prefetch but nothing else was one of the reasons we had to keep the latest_bdev in btrfs, so good riddance. You may want to add the reference to the patch that added the prefetch, 65dd2aa90aa1 ("dio: optimize cache misses in the submission path") and also remove #include <linux/prefetch.h> as there are no more uses of prefetch in the file. With that Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel