Re: [PATCH -v7][RFC]: mutex: implement adaptive spinning

[Jamie Lokier]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> If it's used once in a single .c file it should be inlined even if
> it's large.

As Linus has pointed out, because of GCC not sharing stack among
different inlined functions, the above is surprisingly not true.

In kernel it's a problem due to raw stack usage.

In userspace apps (where stack used is larger), inlining single-call
functions could, paradoxically, run slower due to increased stack
dcache pressure for some larger functions.

-- Jamie
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