Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261687AbVC1EMN (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:12:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261690AbVC1EMN (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:12:13 -0500 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:9957 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261687AbVC1EML (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:12:11 -0500 Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 20:10:54 -0800 From: Paul Jackson To: Dave Jones Cc: jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] no need to check for NULL before calling kfree() -fs/ext2/ Message-Id: <20050327201054.57eb7791.pj@engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050327174026.GA708@redhat.com> References: <1111825958.6293.28.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1111881955.957.11.camel@mindpipe> <20050327065655.6474d5d6.pj@engr.sgi.com> <20050327174026.GA708@redhat.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 770 Lines: 17 Dave writes: > Am I the only person who is completely fascinated by the > effort being spent here micro-optimising something thats Eh .. it's well known behaviour. Bring two questions before a committee, one for millions of dollars and the other for pocket change, and watch the committee spend more time discussing the second question. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401 - 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/