On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 21:26:39 +0200 Jesper Dangaard Brouer <bro...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 14:50:44 -0700 Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> > wrote: > [...] > > > Deleting the BUG altogether sounds the best solution. As long as the > > kernel crashes in some manner, we'll be able to work out what happened. > > And it's cant-happen anyway, isn't it? > > To me WARN_ON() seems like a good "documentation" if it does not hurt > performance. I don't think removing the WARN_ON() will improve > performance, but I'm willing to actually test if it matters.
I tested removing BUG/WARN_ON altogether, and it gives slightly worse performance. The icache-misses only increase approx 14% (not 112% as before). This, I'm willing to attribute to some code alignment issue. Thus, let us just keep the WARN_ON() and move along. -- Best regards, Jesper Dangaard Brouer MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
