On Sun, 2017-10-08 at 02:01 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 02:42:38PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: > > This patch is a micro-optimization for the hot path. > > How much does it buy you on what workload? Hello Christoph, Because I assume that the improvement realized by this patch will be smaller than the measurement error I have not yet tried to measure how much this patch impacts performance. Yet I think this patch is beneficial because it touches code in the hot path and because it reduces the number of pointer indirections in that code path. Bart.��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{���fk��ܨ}���Ơz�j:+v�����w����ޙ��&�)ߡ�a����z�ޗ���ݢj��w�f