linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Some love to default profiler

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:43:44 -0500
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Some love to default profiler

On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 01:34:20AM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> 1) Drop __KERNEL__ out of profile.h. It contains only internal kernel stuff and
>    not in exported headers list
> 2) Put profile.c under CONFIG_PROFILING. You enabled profiling in config, you
>    will get it. Removes conditional branch from schedule(). Code savings on my
>    usual config:
> 
> 	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> 	2921871	 179895	 180224	3281990	 321446	vmlinux		before
> 	2920141	 179847	 180224	3280212	 320d54	vmlinux		after
> 	--------------------------------------------------------------
> 	  -1730     -48           -1778
> 
> 3) Make timer_hook static (hi, Adrian!)
> 4) Convert do {} while (0) into static inline functions
> 5) minor misc stuff

Something here suggests this should have been 5 patches.

Otherwise, looks good to me.

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