Re: [PATCH] readahead: initial method - expected read size - fix fastcall

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On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 15:34:15 +0800
Fengguang Wu <[email protected]> wrote:

> Remove 'fastcall' directive for function readahead_close().
> 
> It has drawn concerns from Andrew Morton.

Well.  I think fastcall is ugly and vaguely silly.  Now if we has a
really_really_fastcall then I'd like to use that!


> Now I have some benchmarks
> on it, and proved it as a _false_ optimization.

Sorry, I don't believe this will be measurable (and with CONFIG_REGPARM
it'll be a no-op).

But I'm always glad to see a fastcall disappear ;)

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