On 9/1/20 1:11 PM, David Miller wrote:

From: trix@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 14:26:30 -0700

quoted

Passing unused parameters is a waste.

Poorly predicted branches are an even bigger waste.

I'm not a big fan of this change and others have asked for performance
analysis to be performed.

So I'm not applying this as-is, sorry.

no worries.

I think these functions need a larger working over so the stats collecting are not in the core functions.

Thanks for giving it a look,

Tom

It's also not great to see that CLANG can't make use of the caller's
__always_unused directive to guide these warnings.