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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	npiggin@kernel.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dcache: faster dentry_cmp()
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:16:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120215081634.GC3306@p183.telecom.by> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ehtw7tsf.fsf@firstfloor.org>

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 05:46:24PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > 1) consistently use "unsigned int" for dentry name length,
> > 2) reuse subtraction result for return value, exact value doesn't matter
> >    because function is only used in boolean context,
> > 3) use *p++ idiom for even better code.
> 
> I'm sure there are even better ways to do the comparision using longer
> words,  especially as we know the boundaries and alignment.

This requires terminating dentry names with 1-3 NULs.
Al, can we afford such beauty?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-15  8:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-14 22:45 [PATCH] dcache: faster dentry_cmp() Alexey Dobriyan
2012-02-14 22:58 ` Al Viro
2012-02-15  8:14   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2012-02-15  1:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
2012-02-15  8:14   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2012-02-15  1:46 ` Andi Kleen
2012-02-15  8:16   ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
2012-02-15 11:19     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2012-02-15 20:20       ` Andi Kleen
2012-04-20 12:06 ` Nick Piggin

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