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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@gmail.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	penberg@cs.helsinki.fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH] no need to check for NULL before calling kfree() -fs/ext2/
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:30:44 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f02050328223017b17746@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1112064777.19014.17.camel@mindpipe>

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:52:57 -0500, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> I see kfree used in several hot paths.  Check out
> this /proc/latency_trace excerpt:

Yes, but is the pointer being free'd NULL most of the time? The
optimization does not help if you are releasing actual memory.

                           Pekka

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-29  6:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-25 22:08 [PATCH] no need to check for NULL before calling kfree() - fs/ext2/ Jesper Juhl
2005-03-25 22:29 ` linux-os
2005-03-25 22:44   ` Jesper Juhl
2005-03-26  7:50   ` Pekka Enberg
2005-03-26  8:32   ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-26 23:21     ` [PATCH] no need to check for NULL before calling kfree() -fs/ext2/ linux-os
2005-03-26 23:34       ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-03-27  2:00         ` Horst von Brand
2005-03-27  3:18           ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-03-27 22:12         ` linux-os
2005-03-26 23:54       ` Jesper Juhl
2005-03-27  0:05         ` Lee Revell
2005-03-27 10:55           ` Jesper Juhl
2005-03-27 14:56             ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-27 15:12               ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-03-27 17:40                 ` Dave Jones
2005-03-27 18:17                   ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-03-27 19:25                   ` Pekka Enberg
2005-03-27 22:56                   ` Jesper Juhl
2005-03-28  4:53                     ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-30 18:57                       ` Jesper Juhl
2005-03-28  1:20                   ` Horst von Brand
2005-03-28  4:10                   ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-28 12:58                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-03-29  2:52                   ` Lee Revell
2005-03-29  6:30                     ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2005-03-29  7:06                       ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-03-29  7:24                         ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-03-30  2:44                           ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-30  6:13                             ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-03-30  6:16                               ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-30  7:15                               ` P Lavin
2005-03-30 14:20                                 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-03-30 19:10                             ` Jesper Juhl
2005-04-09  2:21                               ` Jesper Juhl
2005-03-28  4:07                 ` [PATCH] " Paul Jackson
2005-03-27  8:45       ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-27 12:51         ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-03-27 14:28           ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-27 23:13         ` [PATCH] no need to check for NULL before calling kfree()-fs/ext2/ linux-os

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