Chris G. Demetriou wrote:
|Sure, sure, compared to the time it takes to do an I/O a few dozen
|divisions isn't too much, but it becomes more significant if you're
|talking about a cached block, and in either case it does consume CPU
|that could have been used on something else...

But then, the power of 2 case is the "normal" case which is used 90%
of the time. So shifts can be used that are not that expensive.

if (blocksize = powof2)
   use shifts
else
   go the long way.

In the worst case, the check above could be done through a flag for
each device that is read at mount time from the device and which is then
cached.

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