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

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Sun Mar 27 2005 - 13:19:15 EST


>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.
>[...]
Was not me who started it :P

>I guess April 1st came early this year.
DST change for Europe and Australia is a day ahead- hm, does not suffice to
get onto April 1.


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