Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 17:06:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -v7][RFC]: mutex: implement adaptive spinning
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On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> Well, it's not totally meaningless. To begin with, defining 'inline' to 
> mean 'always inline' is a Linux kernel definition. So we already changed 
> the behavior - in the hope of getting it right most of the time and in the 
> hope of thus improving the kernel.

Umm. No we didn't. We've never changed it. It was "always inline" back in 
the old days, and then we had to keep it "always inline", which is why we 
override the default gcc meaning with the preprocessor.

Now, OPTIMIZE_INLINING _tries_ to change the semantics, and people are 
complaining..

		Linus
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