On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 11:24:20AM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 07:05 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Micro-optimize various comparisms by always byteswapping the constant
> > instead of the variable, which allows to do the swap at compile instead
> > of runtime.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>
> Ha!!! You missed one! File "fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_node.c"
> lines 412-413 (after applying this patch):
>
> ASSERT(be32_to_cpu(free->hdr.magic) == XFS_DIR2_FREE_MAGIC);
I left a few where we are doing the same byteswap a little later again,
but this one doesn't seem to fall into the category. Oh, I see why now:
my grep only found the _MAGIC and the byteswap on the same line.
> Also, xfs_magics[] in "fs/xfs/xfs_btree.c" could be
> initialized with the pre-byte-swapped versions of
> the constants (and the array should be given static
> scope as well).
Yeah, but let's keep this patch simple for now.
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