On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 07:50:18PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > >> I am a bit surprised that you do not like such source code fine-tuning. > > > > It's moving stuff around for no real reason, why would I like it? > > Can such fine-tuning result in positive effects for the run-time behaviour? If you can not benchmark and show the proof, don't even start to claim such a thing. > > Did you speed up the code in a measurable way? > > My suggestions can result in measurable differences. Show the proof please. That's the only way I will ever accept anything else from you like this. > Will it become acceptable to reduce the scope for any more variable > definitions in further function implementations? No. > > Code in staging needs to be moved out of staging, and this patch does > > nothing toward achieving that goal and it wastes people's time reviewing > > it to see if it is correct or not. > > I am curious on the ways the discussed software can evolve further. That's nice, but that's not my concern. greg k-h -- 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