Re: [PATCH] vfs: avoid taking locks if inode not in lists

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:59:57PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Btw, I wonder if you should micro-optimize things a bit further by
> > moving the unhashed checks from the deletion functions into the callers
> > and thus save a function call for each of them.
> 
> If the caller is in the same file modern gcc is able to do that automatically
> if you're lucky enough ("partial inlining")
> 
> I would not uglify the code for it.

Depending on how you look at it the code might actually be a tad
cleaner.  One of called functions is outside of inode.c.

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