Re: [PATCH]micro optimization of kcalloc

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Hi,

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 03:45:23PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> >  static inline void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
> >  {
> > -     if (n != 0 && size > INT_MAX / n)
> > +     if (unlikely(size != 0 && n > INT_MAX / size ))
> >               return NULL;
> >       return kzalloc(n * size, flags);
> >  }

On 3/20/06, Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]> wrote:
> This function shouldn't be inlined.  We have no need to optimize the
> unlikely case like this.

IIRC, I made it static inline in the first place because that actually
reduced kernel text size. (And I think it was Adrian who made me do it
:-).

                                Pekka
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