On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 11:08:30AM -0800, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> >
> >>I found three functions in slab.c that have only 1 caller (kmem_getpages,
> >>alloc_slabmgmt, and set_slab_attr), so let's inline them.
> >
> >
> > Why? They aren't on the hot path and I don't see how this is an
> > improvement...
> >
> > Pekka
>
> Well, no, they aren't on the hot path. I just figured since they are only
> ever called from one other function, why not inline them? If the sentiment
> is that it's a BAD idea, I'll drop it.
And if there will one day be a second caller, noone will remember to
remove the inline...
At least with unit-at-a-time [1], gcc should be smart enough to inline
all static functions when it does make sense.
> -Matt
cu
Adrian
[1] currently disabled in the kernel on i386, but this will change at
least for the latest gcc in the mid-term future
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"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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