On 8/14/20 8:25 PM, Wu Bo wrote: > NULL check before kfree() is not needed While it's not needed, it's also slower. Particularly on AMD it seems. It's on my list to ensure that kfree() is an inline that checks for non-NULL before calling the real freeing function. Should get around to that soon, as this is probably the third time someone has sent this patch :-) -- Jens Axboe