Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Apr 2006 03:22:54 -0400 (EDT) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: kfree(NULL) |
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On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Daniel Walker wrote:
> I included a patch , not like it's needed . Recently I've been > evaluating likely/unlikely branch prediction .. One thing that I found > is that the kfree function is often called with a NULL "objp" . In fact > it's so frequent that the "unlikely" branch predictor should be inverted! > Or at least on my configuration.
It would be helpful to collect some stats on this so we can look at the ratio.
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