Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:07:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
cc: Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       jim owens <jowens@hp.com>,
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Subject: Re: [patch] measurements, numbers about CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y
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On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> > 
> > Does gcc actually follow the "promise"? If that's the case (and if it's
> > considered a bug when it doesn't), then we can get what Linus wants by
> > annotating EVERY function with either __always_inline or noinline.
> > 
> 
> __always_inline and noinline does work.

I vote for the, get rid of the current inline, rename __always_inline to 
inline, and then remove all non needed inlines from the kernel.

We'll, probably start adding a lot more noinlines.

-- Steve

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