Re: kfree(NULL)

[James Morris]

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.


- James
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