Bug 194351 - drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_io.c lov_io_rw_iter_init inefficient path structure
Summary: drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_io.c lov_io_rw_iter_init inefficient pa...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Drivers
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Staging (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 normal
Assignee: drivers_staging@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
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Reported: 2017-02-07 06:07 UTC by Michael
Modified: 2017-02-07 06:07 UTC (History)
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Kernel Version: 4.10
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Description Michael 2017-02-07 06:07:42 UTC 
In lov_io_rw_iter_init:
Thefastpath's value is mitigated by a slowpath that it has to traverse through at the end of the function, and the conditional branches in the slowpath have inconsistent return values (particularly the (unlikely) branch).
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