linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] Faster ext2_clear

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Message-ID: <20070709221218.GB18501@lazybastard.org>
Date:	Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:12:18 +0200
From:	Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>
To:	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Faster ext2_clear_inode()

On Mon, 9 July 2007 17:02:20 -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> 
> It's not a direct call to a static function.  It is called as a
> super_ops method.  I don't think the overhead is very significant, but
> it doesn't look like it could do any harm.

Ah, I missed that fact.  Yep, looks fine to me.

Jörn

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