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

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 
> Does "always_inline" complain if the function isn't inlinable, while
> "inline" allows it?  That would explain the alpha comment.

I suspect it dates back to gcc-3.1 days. It's from 2004. And the author of 
that comment is a part-time gcc hacker who was probably offended by the 
fact that we thought (correctly) that a lot of gcc inlining was totally 
broken.

Since he was the main alpha maintainer, he got to do things his way 
there..

			Linus
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