On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 18:06:19 -0700
Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-07-20 at 20:55 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:37:54 -0700
> > Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > + if ($line =~
> > > > /\b(synchronize_rcu_expedited|synchronize_sched_expedited)\(/) {
> > >
> > > It'd be faster perl without capture groups:
> >
> > Is checkpatch such a critical code path that we could possibly notice
> > the difference in speed? Although the above may be few microseconds
> > slower, to me, the above looks a hell of a lot more readable.
>
> Regardless, it's not as capable as it wouldn't find
> any miswritten form like
>
> synchronize_<foo>_expedited ( args... )
Then that's a better rational than performance.
-- Steve
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