On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Pavel Machek <pa...@ucw.cz> wrote:
>> The additional cost of using current vs NULL is ~zero.
>
> The additional cost of current vs NULL is cca 8 bytes per caller. Test
> for NULL is cca 4 bytes, maybe 20 bytes total. I believe it is worth
> it.
It depends (typical answer ;-)
On architectures that keep current in a register, the cost of using it is
usually zero, as there's typically no difference between pushing a register
or a zero on the stack, or moving a register or a zero to another register.
current_thread_info()->task is more expensive.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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