linux-kernel - Re: ext4: mballoc: avoid 20-argument function call

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Message-ID: <20150615043605.GA15413@thunk.org>
Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:36:05 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4: mballoc: avoid 20-argument function call

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:28:02AM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> Making a function call with 20 arguments is rather expensive in both
> stack and .text. In this case, doing the formatting manually doesn't
> make it any less readable, so we might as well save 155 bytes of .text
> and 112 bytes of stack.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted
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