On 26 December 2014 at 10:16, Denis V. Lunev <den-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > IMHO the patch does not change anything even on hot-hot path. > the declaration 'struct kvm_irqfd irqfd = {};' will > result in memset inside. > > Thus in order to achieve declared goal author should > declare > struct kvm_irqfd irqfd; > and perform > memset(&irqfd, 0, sizeof(irqfd)); > later after the check. Mm, but once you're into such microoptimisations as this you really need to have a good justification for the effort, in the form of profiling measurements that indicate that this is a hot path. In this case that seems pretty unlikely, because I'd expect all the systems where we care about performance will support irqfds, so we won't be taking the early-exit code path anyhow. (And not supporting irqfds is leaving much more performance on the table than we could possibly be talking about in this function.) thanks -- PMM -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html