linux-kernel - Re: Please be aware that __always_inline doesn't mean "always inline"!

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Message-ID: <506397E9.1070000@att.net>
Date:	Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:03:53 -0500
From:	Daniel Santos <danielfsantos@....net>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@...ox.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Please be aware that __always_inline doesn't mean "always inline"!

On 09/26/2012 06:50 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> As I mentioned in the other thread, the __always_inline's in fs/namei.c
> (at least) are doing exactly what we want them to do, so some more
> investigation is needed here?
Yes, definitely. When I did some tests on it (to confirm the behavior) a
few months ago, it did behave as advertised. Sounds like this definitely
needs more research. Thanks Andrew.

Daniel

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