linux-kernel - Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [RFC, PATCH 1/4] Add support to OProfile for profiling Cell BE SPUs -- update

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Date:	Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:47:21 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Carl Love <cel@...ibm.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, cbe-oss-dev@...abs.org,
	oprofile-list@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [RFC, PATCH 1/4] Add support to OProfile for profiling Cell BE SPUs -- update

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:57:26AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 14:49 -0800, Carl Love wrote:
> > Christoph:
> > 
> > In our earlier work on the PPU profiling patch, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > said that we should remove macros that are only used once and just put
> > the actual code in.  That is why the macros were removed. 
> 
> Heh... there is a balance to be found... In some cases, inline functions
> might be better too.

Well, unless there's a very good reasons against it (token pasting,
header pollution) inlines are always preferable over macros, but I
didn't want to bring that issue up aswell..
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