On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 07:51:52AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 10:44:26AM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > But does this code path actually show up anywhere that is actually > > measurable as mattering? > > > > If so, please show that benchmark results. > > I think the requests are starting to be a bit unreasonable. Tao is > replacing a reimplementation of a standard function with that standard > function / compiler builtin. We don't put such a high burden on that. That's fine, but to say it is "faster" usually means we want to see it actually going faster somehow :) > And once the proper existing fields are used where possible as shown > in my reply just replacing the rest seems totally obvious - quite > contrary I think keeping a reimplementation would need a high bar. Your patch makes sense, I was not objecting to that. thanks, greg k-h