Re: [PATCH] vfs: avoid taking locks if inode not in lists

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Jul 27 2011 - 17:00:08 EST


> Btw, I wonder if you should micro-optimize things a bit further by
> moving the unhashed checks from the deletion functions into the callers
> and thus save a function call for each of them.

If the caller is in the same file modern gcc is able to do that automatically
if you're lucky enough ("partial inlining")

I would not uglify the code for it.

-Andi
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