linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/atm/horizon.c: stop inlining largish static functions

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Date:	Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:54:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vda.linux@...glemail.com
Cc:	chas@....nrl.navy.mil, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/atm/horizon.c: stop inlining largish static
 functions

From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:21:42 +0200

> drivers/atm/horizon.c has unusually large number
> of static inline functions - 36.
> 
> I looked through them. Most of them seems to be small enough,
> but a few are big, others are using udelay or busy loop,
> and as such are better not be inlined.
> 
> This patch removes "inline" from these static functions
> (regardless of number of callsites - gcc nowadays auto-inlines
> statics with one callsite).
> 
> Size difference for 32bit x86:
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>    8201     180       6    8387    20c3 linux-2.6-ALLYES/drivers/atm/horizon.o
>    7840     180       6    8026    1f5a linux-2.6.inline-ALLYES/drivers/atm/horizon.o
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>

Applied to net-2.6.26, thanks Denys.
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