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Date:   Mon, 13 Apr 2020 20:00:17 -0700
From:   Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 5/7] ASoC: fsl_asrc: Move common definition to
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 10:21:29AM +0800, Shengjiu Wang wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 10:09 AM Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 08:43:07AM +0800, Shengjiu Wang wrote:
> > > There is a new ASRC included in i.MX serial platform, there
> > > are some common definition can be shared with each other.
> > > So move the common definition to a separate header file.
> > >
> > > And add fsl_asrc_pair_priv and fsl_asrc_priv for
> > > the variable specific for the module, which can be used
> > > internally.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Shengjiu Wang <shengjiu.wang@nxp.com>
> >
> > > diff --git a/sound/soc/fsl/fsl_asrc.c b/sound/soc/fsl/fsl_asrc.c
> > > +static size_t fsl_asrc_get_pair_priv_size(void)
> > > +{
> > > +     return sizeof(struct fsl_asrc_pair_priv);
> > > +}
> >
> > Perhaps we haven't understood completely each other's point.
> >
> > Yet, would the following change work?
> 
> Should work, almost same

Function call involving branch instruction may fail CPU's branch
prediction and hurt performance, depending on the CPU arch. If a
variable simply does the job, we should avoid doing that.

> or do you want me to use variable to replace function pointer?

Yes. And please add my ack once you change it as the reset LGTM:

Acked-by: Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@gmail.com>