Re: [RFC][PATCH] inline a few tiny functions in init/initramfs.c

[Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 9/28/05, Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/28/05, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 02:07 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> >
> > > Ok, so it seems that there's agreement that the other two inlines in
> > > the patch makes sense, but the malloc() is not clear cut.
> > >
> > > Since this is in initramfs after all it doesn't make that big a
> > > difference overall, so I'll just send in a patch that inlines the
> > > other two functions but leaves malloc() alone.
> > >
> >
> > Well, they're not particularly performance critical, and everything
> > is marked init anyway so I don't know why you would bother changing
> > anything ;)
> >
>
> Don't you feel "static inline void __init " stupid? (inline + __init)
> Anyway don't do things like that manually. Leave the optimization job
> to gcc.

Hmm, I guess you are right. They just looked like so obvious
candidates for inlining, __init or no __init, but I guess it doesn't
matter - I'll find better things to spend my time on.
Thanks.


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