If it's a corner case, it won't be hit often enough right? And if it was hit often enough, it wouldn't be corner case!? :)
These 2 are mutually exclusive! On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Nick <[email protected]> wrote: > After reading through the code in inode.c today , I am curious about the > comment and the following code I will paste > below. I am curious if this corner case is hit often enough for me to write a > patch to improve the speed of this > corner case. Furthermore , compress_file_range is the function name, in case > you can't guess by the pasted code. > Regards Nick > 411 /* > 412 * we don't want to send crud past the end of i_size through > 413 * compression, that's just a waste of CPU time. So, if the > 414 * end of the file is before the start of our current > 415 * requested range of bytes, we bail out to the uncompressed > 416 * cleanup code that can deal with all of this. > 417 * > 418 * It isn't really the fastest way to fix things, but this is a > 419 * very uncommon corner. > 420 */ > 421 if (actual_end <= start) > 422 goto cleanup_and_bail_uncompressed; > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
