[PATCH] powerpc: simplify dma_ops bug conditions
    Muli Ben-Yehuda 
    muli at il.ibm.com
       
    Mon Jul 17 16:31:49 EST 2006
    
    
  
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:55:09PM +1000, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> No, it's not really necessary, more a style thing. The BUG_ON only adds 
> an extra 3 instructions (subfic, addi and tdnei), which should be tiny 
> compared to the indirect branch.
When we were submitting a patch to add a
BUG_ON(!valid_dma_data_direction(dir)) to x86-64's DMA-API, Jeff
Garzik was vehemently opposed to adding a few instructions to "one of
the hottest paths in the kernel".
Cheers,
Muli
    
    
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