Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 04:04:44 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Inline vm_acct_memory
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Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> I found that inlining vm_acct_memory speeds up vm_enough_memory.  
>  Since vm_acct_memory is only called by vm_enough_memory,
>  theoritically inlining should help, and my tests proved so -- there was
>  an improvement of about 10 % in profile ticks (vm_enough_memory) on a 
>  4 processor PIII Xeon running kernbench.

OK.  But with just a single call site we may as well implement vm_acct_memory()
inside mm/memory.c.  Could you please make that change?

Thanks.
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