Re: [PATCH] seq_file: Optimize seq_puts()

[Rasmus Villemoes]

On 15/04/2024 22.47, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> Le 04/01/2024 à 14:29, Christophe JAILLET a écrit :
>> Most of seq_puts() usages are done with a string literal. In such cases,
>> the length of the string car be computed at compile time in order to save
>> a strlen() call at run-time. seq_write() can then be used instead.
>>
>> This saves a few cycles.
>>
>> To have an estimation of how often this optimization triggers:
>>     $ git grep seq_puts.*\" | wc -l
>>     3391
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> any feed-back on this small optimisation of seq_puts()?

While you're at it, could you change the implementation of the
out-of-line seq_puts (or __seq_puts if it gets renamed to that) to
simply be seq_write(seq, s, strlen(s)) instead of duplicating the
overflow/memcpy logic.

Rasmus