On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, 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...
It avoids the call/return sequences so it may decrease code size a bit and
allow the compiler (if its up to the task) to do more CSE optimizations.
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