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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, diegocg@gmail.com, lista1@comhem.se,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] readahead: initial method - expected read size - fix fastcall
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 02:07:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060604020738.31f43cb0.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <349406446.10828@ustc.edu.cn>

On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 15:34:15 +0800
Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> wrote:

> Remove 'fastcall' directive for function readahead_close().
> 
> It has drawn concerns from Andrew Morton.

Well.  I think fastcall is ugly and vaguely silly.  Now if we has a
really_really_fastcall then I'd like to use that!


> Now I have some benchmarks
> on it, and proved it as a _false_ optimization.

Sorry, I don't believe this will be measurable (and with CONFIG_REGPARM
it'll be a no-op).

But I'm always glad to see a fastcall disappear ;)


  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-04  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20060604073415.GB5405@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-04  7:34 ` Fengguang Wu
2006-06-04  9:07   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-06-04  9:25     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-05  1:17       ` Voluspa
2006-06-05  8:00         ` Arjan van de Ven
     [not found]         ` <20060606022606.GA6071@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-06  2:26           ` Fengguang Wu
2006-06-08  7:31             ` Voluspa
     [not found]               ` <20060608075722.GA5515@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-08  7:57                 ` Fengguang Wu
     [not found]         ` <20060606025728.GA6365@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-06  2:57           ` Fengguang Wu
2006-06-08  7:43             ` Voluspa
     [not found]               ` <20060608081352.GB5515@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-08  8:13                 ` Fengguang Wu
2006-06-08  8:28                   ` Voluspa
     [not found]                     ` <20060608085055.GA5917@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-08  8:50                       ` Fengguang Wu
2006-06-08 10:04                         ` Voluspa
     [not found]     ` <20060604121328.GA6686@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-04 12:13       ` [PATCH] readahead: call scheme - fix fastcall readahead_cache_hit() Fengguang Wu
2006-05-30  3:36 Adaptive Readahead V14 - statistics question Voluspa
     [not found] ` <20060530064026.GA4950@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-05-30  6:40   ` Wu Fengguang
2006-05-30 16:49 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-05-31 21:06   ` Diego Calleja
2006-05-31 21:50   ` Voluspa
     [not found]     ` <20060601055143.GA5216@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-01  5:51       ` Fengguang Wu
2006-06-01  6:35         ` Voluspa
2006-06-08  8:04         ` Voluspa
     [not found]           ` <20060608113731.GA5813@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-08 11:37             ` adaptive readahead overheads Fengguang Wu
2006-06-08 12:25               ` Voluspa
     [not found]                 ` <20060608123900.GA6885@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-08 12:39                   ` Fengguang Wu
2006-06-08 13:05                 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-08 14:00                   ` Jens Axboe
     [not found] ` <448493E9.9030203@samwel.tk>
     [not found]   ` <20060606033436.GB6071@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-06-06  3:34     ` Adaptive Readahead V14 - statistics question Wu Fengguang

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