On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 11:06:18PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > My timings still showed roughly a 2% improvement (well 1.8% on the > "repeat ten times, do the average") but I didn't really do a lot of > deviation testing. The noise in the numbers is quite noticeable > between reboots, but I've seen that 1-2% several times over various > different implementations of the same "try to avoid touching > inode->i_op->xyz", so I'm pretty convinced it's not just random noise. Trivial nit: s/do_follow_link/should_follow_link/, I think... -- 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