On Mon, 9 July 2007 08:11:22 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > If CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL is not configured, ext2_clear_inode() will be empty > function. However, there still will be call and immediate return which can be > avoided. > [...] > +#ifdef CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL > static void ext2_clear_inode(struct inode *inode) > { > -#ifdef CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL > struct ext2_inode_info *ei = EXT2_I(inode); > > if (ei->i_acl && ei->i_acl != EXT2_ACL_NOT_CACHED) { > @@ -197,8 +197,10 @@ static void ext2_clear_inode(struct inode *inode) > posix_acl_release(ei->i_default_acl); > ei->i_default_acl = EXT2_ACL_NOT_CACHED; > } > -#endif > } > +#else > +#define ext2_clear_inode NULL > +#endif Are you sure your patch makes a difference? Does the resulting binary change at all? Jörn -- Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small. Fancy algorithms have big constants. Until you know that n is frequently going to be big, don't get fancy. -- Rob Pike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html