Re: [PATCH 2.6.5-mm4] vfs_readdir optimizations

From: Chris Wright
Date: Wed Apr 14 2004 - 15:18:44 EST


* Fabian Frederick (Fabian.Frederick@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> -Remove unuseful gotos
> -ENOENT case on DEADDIR

Couple things. It's useful to generate some numbers to show an
optimization is worthwhile. And code readability/maintainability is
important to maintain correctness. You may look at the assembly and
find that there is no real optimization with the changes you've proposed.

thanks,
-chris
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