Re: [PATCH]micro optimization of kcalloc

[David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> 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 <bcrl@kvack.org> 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
> :-).

I wonder if this is still needed with the new inline changes that were 
made to allow GCC to make the decision (for recent GCC's)

David Lang

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