linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] [NET]: uninline skb

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Message-Id: <20080327.170454.124353224.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:04:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	joe@...ches.com
Cc:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	acme@...hat.com, mpm@...enic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] [NET]: uninline skb_put, de-bloats a lot

From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:02:37 -0700

> I think this is the sort of change you might have argued
> against accepting without performance testing not long ago.

Look at how complicated the assembler of this function
is.  Any inlining performance gains will be trumped by
the instruction cache usage bloat.
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