Re: linux-next: manual merge of the vfs tree with the aio-direct tree

Zach Brown
2013-09-18T17:06:42Z

> As for aio-direct... Two questions:
> * had anybody tried to measure the effect on branch predictor from
> introducing that method vector? Commit d6afd4c4 ("iov_iter: hide iovec
> details behind ops function pointers")

FWIW, I never did. I only went that route to begin with because the few
alternatives I tried before that were even more ugly :(. It's been long
enough that I can't quite remember what I'd tried, though.

- z