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Date:	Tue, 29 Sep 2015 20:54:03 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
cc:	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/signal: Deinline get_sigframe, save 240 bytes

On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> Nothing really against or in favor of these patches, but I don't think that
> saving 240 bytes (or whatever) is worth such changes, in fact we have Josh's
> tinyfication project for those systems that do in fact care.

And what exactly is wrong with slimming down the mainline kernel? We
have tons of inlines which are way too fat and an extra unconditional
function call is not going to show up as a performance degradation by
any means.

Thanks,

	tglx


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