Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261313AbVC0SR2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:17:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261330AbVC0SR1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:17:27 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:61320 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261313AbVC0SRW (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:17:22 -0500 Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 20:17:15 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Dave Jones cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] no need to check for NULL before calling kfree() -fs/ext2/ In-Reply-To: <20050327174026.GA708@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <1111825958.6293.28.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1111881955.957.11.camel@mindpipe> <20050327065655.6474d5d6.pj@engr.sgi.com> <20050327174026.GA708@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 756 Lines: 19 >Am I the only person who is completely fascinated by the >effort being spent here micro-optimising something thats >almost never in a path that needs optimising ? >I'd be amazed if any of this masturbation showed the tiniest >blip on a real workload, or even on a benchmark other than >one crafted specifically to test kfree in a loop. >[...] Was not me who started it :P >I guess April 1st came early this year. DST change for Europe and Australia is a day ahead- hm, does not suffice to get onto April 1. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/