Re: [PATCH] Athlon-SMP compiles & runs. inline fns honored.

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Feb 11 2001 - 05:54:50 EST


> Ouch. What about un-inlining in_interrupt() for all SMP cases? Reduces
> code size just a bit, and function calls aren't very expensive on SMP
> machines IMHO... (and as a side effect solves this problem...)

Call, conditional branch, call is pretty expensive and thats what most
in_interrupt and small constant memcpy/memset paths are

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