[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: optimize ocfs2_check_dir_entry() with unlikely() annotations

Mark Fasheh mfasheh at suse.com
Mon Jan 24 12:17:10 PST 2011


On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:23:30PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> From: Tao Ma <boyu.mt at taobao.com>
> 
> In cad3f00, ext4_check_dir_entry was modified by adding some unlikely.
> Ted described it as "This function gets called a lot for large
> directories, and the answer is almost always 'no, no, there's no problem'.
> This means using unlikely() is a good thing."
> ext3 added the similar change in commit a4ae309.
> 
> So change it accordingly in ocfs2.
> 
> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec at evilplan.org>
> Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt at taobao.com>

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh at suse.com>

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