Re: [PATCH] likely cleanup: remove unlikely for kfree(NULL)

[Nick Piggin]

Pekka J Enberg wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> > if you deref'd the pointer it'll optimize it away (assuming a new enough
> > gcc, like 4.1)
>
>
> Here are the numbers for allyesconfig on my setup.

25k out of 25,000k isn't _too_ bad.

On my kernel that should be less than 5k (unless drivers/fses
have a very different ratio of size change versus core code).

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