> If you can benchmark the code and the new code is faster then, yes, this > patch is good and we will apply it. I guess that I do not have enough resources myself to measure different run time effects in a S390 environment. > If you have no benchmarks then do not send the patch. Are other software developers and testers eventually interested to try a few pointer check adjustments out a bit more? Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html