From: Eric Dumazet I added IS_NOATIME(inode) macro definition in include/linux/fs.h, true if the inode superblock is marked readonly or noatime. This new macro is then used in touch_atime() instead of separatly testing MS_RDONLY and MS_NOATIME Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/inode.c | 4 +--- include/linux/fs.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/inode.c~avoid-one-conditional-branch-in-touch_atime fs/inode.c --- a/fs/inode.c~avoid-one-conditional-branch-in-touch_atime +++ a/fs/inode.c @@ -1160,11 +1160,9 @@ void touch_atime(struct vfsmount *mnt, s struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode; struct timespec now; - if (IS_RDONLY(inode)) - return; if (inode->i_flags & S_NOATIME) return; - if (inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_NOATIME) + if (IS_NOATIME(inode)) return; if ((inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_NODIRATIME) && S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) return; diff -puN include/linux/fs.h~avoid-one-conditional-branch-in-touch_atime include/linux/fs.h --- a/include/linux/fs.h~avoid-one-conditional-branch-in-touch_atime +++ a/include/linux/fs.h @@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ extern int dir_notify_enable; #define IS_DIRSYNC(inode) (__IS_FLG(inode, MS_SYNCHRONOUS|MS_DIRSYNC) || \ ((inode)->i_flags & (S_SYNC|S_DIRSYNC))) #define IS_MANDLOCK(inode) __IS_FLG(inode, MS_MANDLOCK) +#define IS_NOATIME(inode) __IS_FLG(inode, MS_RDONLY|MS_NOATIME) #define IS_NOQUOTA(inode) ((inode)->i_flags & S_NOQUOTA) #define IS_APPEND(inode) ((inode)->i_flags & S_APPEND) _