Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] irqchip: sifive-plic: Don't inline plic_toggle() and plic_irq_toggle()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Jan 15 2019 - 10:54:44 EST


On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 04:48:18PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> The plic_toggle() uses raw_spin_lock() and plic_irq_toggle has a
> for loop so both these functions are not suitable for being inline
> hence this patch removes the inline keyword.

That is a weird argument for a function which has by design exactly
two callers and is in the hot path. The alternative to the inline
here would be to duplicate the code.