linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/16] timers/hrtimers: Minor cleanups: Part II

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Date:	Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:51:51 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
cc:	Lists linaro-kernel <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Linaro Networking <linaro-networking@...aro.org>,
	Arvind Chauhan <Arvind.Chauhan@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] timers/hrtimers: Minor cleanups: Part II

On Mon, 31 Mar 2014, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 31 March 2014 19:08, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> > And those cleanups make the compiler generate worse code at least on
> > x86_64:
> >
> >    text      data      bss      dec     hex    filename
> >    7475      554       0        8029    1f5d   kernel/hrtimer.o
> >    7706      554       0        8260    2044   kernel/hrtimer.o
> >
> > So just removing parameters and return values because you can get the
> > same information from a datastructure is not necessarily a good thing.
> 
> Hmm.. Nice.
> 
> Okay, I will have another look at patches and do this kind of investigation
> before sending it next time :) Its been fun going through these frameworks.
> 
> How do you want to proceed now? I mean, you will take the other patches
> (which don't play with function parameters) as is or want me to send a single
> unified patchset with all the pending patches that I have?

I still want to go through the lot and review them, but I wont take
anything before the end of the merge window.

Thanks,

	tglx
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