On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 12:06:47PM GMT, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 06:29:52PM -0400, Daniel Jordan wrote: > > > > The DIV_ROUND_UP approach reads a bit nicer to me, but I can imagine > > oddball cases where rounding up is undesirable (say, near-zero values > > for size, min_chunk, and align; padata_work_alloc_mt returns many fewer > > works than requested; and a single unit of work is very expensive) so > > that rounding up makes a bigger difference. So, the way it now is seems > > ok. > > In that case let's do the max ahead of the align check: > > ps.chunk_size = max(ps.chunk_size, 1ul); > ps.chunk_size = roundup(ps.chunk_size, job->align); > > If we do it after then it may come out unaligned (e.g., job->align = 8 > and ps.chunk_size = 1). Sure, I think Kamlesh was the first to suggest max, so maybe Kamlesh would like to make the change. I'll send a patch otherwise.