Re: net-scm: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree"

From: SF Markus Elfring
Date: Tue Nov 17 2015 - 13:06:00 EST


> Eric already mentioned that in some situations where it's critical,
> it actually slows down the code, i.e. you'll have an extra
> function call to get there and inside kfree() / kfree_skb() / etc,
> the test is actually marked as unlikely().

How do you think about to add similar annotations to any more
source code places?

Regards,
Markus
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