Re: [PATCH] seq_file: Optimize seq_puts()

[Al Viro]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 10:38:15PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> Le 16/04/2024 à 22:56, David Laight a écrit :
> > From: Al Viro
> > > Sent: 15 April 2024 22:01
> > ...
> > > No need to make it a macro, actually.  And I would suggest going
> > > a bit further:
> > > 
> > > static inline void seq_puts(struct seq_file *m, const char *s)
> > 
> > That probably needs to be 'always_inline'.
> > 
> > > {
> > > 	if (!__builtin_constant_p(*s))
> > > 		__seq_puts(m, s);
> > > 	else if (s[0] && !s[1])
> > > 		seq_putc(m, s[0]);
> > > 	else
> > > 		seq_write(m, s, __builtin_strlen(s));
> > > }
> > 
> > You missed seq_puts(m, "");
> > 
> > I did wonder about checking sizeof(s) <= 2 in the #define version.
> 
> git grep seq_puts.*\"[^\\].\" | wc -l
> 77
> 
> What would you do in this case?
> 2 seq_putc() in order to save a memcpy(..., 2), that's it?

Not a damn thing - just have it call seq_write().  Note that
	if (s[0] && !s[1])
which triggers only on single-character strings.