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From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmemleak: add unlikely() optimization to kmemleak_late_init
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:05:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1285250712.2127.1.camel@cowboy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tnxlj6uhz2s.fsf@e102109-lin.cambridge.arm.com>

On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 11:06 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org> wrote:
> > kmemleak: add unlikely() optimization to kmemleak_late_init()
> >
> > Since there it is not very probable that kmemleak_disable() was called right after setting kmemleak_initialized, we could benefit from predicting it.
> 
> The patch is correct and you can add my Acked-by but I don't really
> think it's worth. We save ~2 cycles during booting, no-one would ever
> notice.
> 

Yeah, it's not a big performance booster, but IMHO it wouldn't hurt to
add it. Since you are the maintainer it's up to you if you include it
upstream.

Thanks,
Davidlohr


      reply	other threads:[~2010-09-23 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-21 17:23 [PATCH] kmemleak: add unlikely() optimization to kmemleak_late_init Davidlohr Bueso
2010-09-22 10:06 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-09-23 14:05   ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]

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