h the objects and the lists that contain them are about to be freed anyway. Since list_del() is a moderately big inline function, getting rid of this extra work saves quite a bit of .text: add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/2 up/down: 3/-217 (-214) function old new delta ib_uverbs_comp_handler 225 228 +3 ib_uverbs_async_handler 256 255 -1 ib_uverbs_close 905 689 -216 Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier