Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 13:35:57 -0600
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
To: "Hefty, Sean" <sean.hefty@intel.com>
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On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 06:41:22PM +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote:

> I too would like to see this as the end result, but I think it's
> possible to stage the changes by having the static inline calls
> being added convert to using these sort of attributes.

I agree as well, this patch set is already so big.

But Doug may be right, this conversion may need to be part of the
series that is applied in one go for performance reasons. But that is
just a patch at the end to optimize the inlines calls.

Jason
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