Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: bpf_jit_comp: simplify trivial boolean return

From: Joe Perches <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 01:26:27 -0800

On Thu, 2014-11-27 at 10:49 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-11-27 at 12:25 +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > Why the change in data?
> 
> btw: without gcov and using -O2
> 
> $ size arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.o*
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>    9671	      4	      0	   9675	   25cb	arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.o.new
>   10679	      4	      0	  10683	   29bb	arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.o.old

Alexei?

Is this 10% reduction in size a good reason to change the code?