On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 22:00 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > On Mon, 9 July 2007 22:01:48 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > > Yes. Note that ext2_clear_inode() is referenced from ext2_sops, so even > > empty, it leaves traces in resulting kernel. > > Is that your opinion or have you actually measured a difference? > I strongly suspect that compilers are smart enough to optimize away a > call to an empty static function.
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. -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
