On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> I vote for the, get rid of the current inline, rename __always_inline to
> inline, and then remove all non needed inlines from the kernel.
This is what we do all the time, and historically have always done.
But
- CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y screws that up
and
- gcc still inlines even big functions static that have no markings at
all.
> We'll, probably start adding a lot more noinlines.
That's going to be very painful. Especially since the cases we really want
to not inline is the random drivers etc - generally not "hot in the
cache", but they are the ones that cause the most oopses (not per line,
but globally - because there's just so many drivers).
Linus
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