On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > They can be expensive, since CPUs generally do not branch predict > well for them. > Cant gcc take care of this? Comparing a pointer and then calling the function directly without using the pointer! Wont this increase the text size of the kernel and possibly degrade performance? Do you have any measurement of the improvement? Is this kind of optimization being used elsewhere? Thanks Nikanth -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
