On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 05:11:25PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > On Wed 19-03-25 01:46:35, Mateusz Guzik wrote: > > While this may sound like a pedantic clean up, it does in fact impact > > code generation -- the patched add routine is slightly smaller. > > > > Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@xxxxxxxxx> > > I'm surprised it matters for the compiler but as Christian wrote, why not. > Feel free to add: I suspect it's because there's a spin_lock() involved. The barriers we have probably mean we've told the compiler that it can't cache the value loaded before the spin_lock().
