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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 23:18:19 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: inlines in kernel/sched.c
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On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > Ingo, could you please review the use of inlines in the
> > scheduler sometime?  They seem to be excessive.
> > 
> > For example, this patch reduces the sched.d icache footprint
> > by 1.5 kilobytes.
> 
> the patch also hurts context-switch latencies - it went
> from 1.35 usecs to 1.42 usecs - a 5% drop.

i'll do something else - create non-inlined wrappers so that the slowpath
can use those, and let the fastpath inline them. We'll see what kind of
code footprint that has.

	Ingo

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