Re: [PATCH] no need to check for NULL before calling kfree() -fs/ext2/

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 05:12:58PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>  > Well, kfree inlined was already mentioned but forgotten again.
>  > What if this was used:
>  > 
>  > inline static void kfree_WRAP(void *addr) {
>  >     if(likely(addr != NULL)) {
>  >         kfree_real(addr);
>  >     }
>  >     return;
>  > }
>  > 
>  > And remove the NULL-test in kfree_real()? Then we would have:
> 
> Am I the only person who is completely fascinated by the
> effort being spent here micro-optimising something thats
> almost never in a path that needs optimising ?
> I'd be amazed if any of this masturbation showed the tiniest
> blip on a real workload, or even on a benchmark other than
> one crafted specifically to test kfree in a loop.

The benchmarks were started when someone noticed one of the tests was (a) not
in a cleanup path and (b) very unlikely to be true.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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