linux-kernel - Re: [patch 02/10] SLUB: Noinline some functions to avoid them being folded into alloc/free

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710281507500.6766@sbz-30.cs.Helsinki.FI>
Date:	Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:08:06 +0200 (EET)
From:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [patch 02/10] SLUB: Noinline some functions to avoid them being
 folded into alloc/free

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Some function tend to get folded into __slab_free and __slab_alloc
> although they are rarely called. They cause register pressure that
> leads to bad code generation.

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
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