Re: [PATCH v1]] lib/btree.c: optimise the code by previously getpos function

From: Leno Hou
Date: Wed Apr 19 2017 - 10:48:40 EST



> On 13 Apr 2017, at 1:32 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 06:03:10PM +0800, Leno Hou wrote:
>> 1. Actually, this is cleanup of the code to human being read but not
>> optimize. And When I compiled the kernel
>> and checked with object code . It proved as same as before. So it's no
>> need to test this change.
>>
>> 2. This Simple B+ Tree in Memory was used by SCSI driver QLA2XXX. so it
>> would be better to merge this
>> cleanup for future optimize. Thanks.
>
> If you care about the btree code a good first step would be to write a
> test suite instead of micro-optimizing it out of the blue without
> actually being able to test it.

OK. Thanks Christoph, Iâm the newbie of kernel developer and will take more
time to search how to write test suite to prove that was optimized.

-Leno Hou