netdev - RE: [net-next 08/14] igb: Combine post-processing of skb into a single function

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Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:32:49 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Cc:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: RE: [net-next 08/14] igb: Combine post-processing of skb into a
 single function

On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 14:49 +0100, David Laight wrote:
> > From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
> > 
> > This change is meant to just clean-up a number of function calls that were
> > made at the end of the Rx clean-up path by combining them into a single
> > function call.
> 
> Since the functions are static and only called once they
> are prime candidates for inlining.
> This might happen anyway (depending on the gcc version
> and the direction the wind is blowing in).
> 
> Marking them with __attribute__((always_inline)) might
> be needed to get them actually inlined.
> 
> That would maintain the logical separation.

vi +712 Documentation/CodingStyle


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