On 1/30/2020 7:54 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:49:46PM +0300, Pavel Begunkov wrote: >> Indirect calls could be very expensive nowadays, so try to use direct calls >> whenever possible. > > ... and independent of that your new version is much shorter and easier > to read. But it could be improved a tiny little bit further: > >> if (out->f_op->splice_write) >> - splice_write = out->f_op->splice_write; >> + return out->f_op->splice_write(pipe, out, ppos, len, flags); >> else >> - splice_write = default_file_splice_write; >> - >> - return splice_write(pipe, out, ppos, len, flags); >> + return default_file_splice_write(pipe, out, ppos, len, flags); > > No need for the else after an return. It generates identical binary. For this to not look sloppy, I'd add new line between, so the same 4 lines. And this looks better for me, but that's rather subjective. I don't think it's worth of changing. What's the benefit? > >> if (in->f_op->splice_read) >> - splice_read = in->f_op->splice_read; >> + return in->f_op->splice_read(in, ppos, pipe, len, flags); >> else >> - splice_read = default_file_splice_read; >> - >> - return splice_read(in, ppos, pipe, len, flags); >> + return default_file_splice_read(in, ppos, pipe, len, flags); > > Same here. > -- Pavel Begunkov