On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 12:22:10PM +0100, Pavel Begunkov wrote: > Even though ->s_maxbytes is used by generic_write_check_limits() only in > case of O_LARGEFILE, the value is loaded unconditionally, which is heavy > and takes 4 indirect loads. Optimise it by not touching ->s_maxbytes, > if it's not going to be used. Out of curiosity - how much of improvement have you actually seen on that? I can't say I hate the patch, but I'd like to see the data...
