Re: [PATCH 2/2] fs: optimize mpage_bio_submit()

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On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ok, can you sincerely tell me that your change makes the code more
> readable? And have you checked to see what the compiler actually
> "optimizes"?
>
> original code:
>
>        movq    $mpage_end_io_read, %rdx        #, tmp65
>        movq    $mpage_end_io_write, %rax       #, tmp64
>        cmpl    $1, %edi        #, rw
>        cmovne  %rdx, %rax      # tmp65,, tmp64
>        movq    %rax, 80(%rsi)  # tmp64, <variable>.bi_end_io
>        .loc 1 91 0
>        call    submit_bio      #
>
> your change:
>
>        movq    $mpage_end_io_read, %rdx        #, tmp63
>        movq    $mpage_end_io_write, %rax       #, iftmp.561
>        cmpl    $1, %edi        #, rw
>        cmovne  %rdx, %rax      # tmp63,, iftmp.561
>        movq    %rax, 80(%rsi)  # iftmp.561, <variable>.bi_end_io
>        .loc 1 90 0
>        call    submit_bio      #
>
> so that change does nothing except obfuscating the source a bit more so
> that you get more headaches whenever you look at it.
>

Oh, I didn't check the asm code. Compiler is smarter than I thought.
Thanks for your explaining.


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Regards,
Changli Gao(xiaosuo@xxxxxxxxx)
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