Re: [PATCH 8/8] Inline 3 functions

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Pekka J Enberg wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> > I found three functions in slab.c that have only 1 caller (kmem_getpages,
> > alloc_slabmgmt, and set_slab_attr), so let's inline them.
> 
> Why? They aren't on the hot path and I don't see how this is an 
> improvement...

It avoids the call/return sequences so it may decrease code size a bit and 
allow the compiler (if its up to the task) to do more CSE optimizations.

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