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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:17:43 +0000
Subject: Re: GPU-DRM-TILCDC: Less function calls in tilcdc_convert_slave_node() after error detection
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To: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>, Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>, Jyri Sarha <jsarha@ti.com>

>> I see a need to improve not only correctness there but also a bit of
>> software efficiency.
> 
> If you can measure any performance difference and present some results
> (esp. considering that this is something that just happens when the
> driver is loaded), then we'll talk.

Are you really interested to increase your software development attention
for a quicker exception handling implementation in this function?


> Until then, please don't send this sort of patch.  Thank you.

Will benchmark statistics change such a change rejection ever?

Regards,
Markus