linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/25] Inline __rmqueue

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Message-Id: <1240300695.771.54.camel@penberg-laptop>
Date:	Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:58:15 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc:	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>,
	Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/25] Inline __rmqueue_smallest()

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 23:19 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Inline __rmqueue_smallest by altering flow very slightly so that there
> is only one call site. This allows the function to be inlined without
> additional text bloat.

Quite frankly, I think these patch changelogs could use some before and
after numbers for "size mm/page_alloc.o" because it's usually the case
that kernel text shrinks when you _remove_ inlines.

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