linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH net v3] net: Force inlining of checksum functions in net/checksum.h

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Date:   Thu, 17 Feb 2022 16:49:49 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Masahiro Yamada' <masahiroy@...nel.org>
CC:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net v3] net: Force inlining of checksum functions in
 net/checksum.h

From: Masahiro Yamada
> Sent: 17 February 2022 16:17
...
> No.  Not that one.
> 
> The commit you presumably want to revert is:
> 
> a771f2b82aa2 ("[PATCH] Add a section about inlining to
> Documentation/CodingStyle")
> 
> This is now referred to as "__always_inline disease", though.

That description is largely fine.

Inappropriate 'inline' ought to be removed.
Then 'inline' means - 'really do inline this'.

Anyone remember massive 100+ line #defines being
used to get code inlined 'to make it faster'.
Sometimes being expanded several times in succession.
May have helped a 68020, but likely to be a loss on
modern cpu with large I-cache and slow memory.

	David

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