netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: always inline net_secret

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Date:	Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:27:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: always inline net_secret_init

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 08:44:50 +0200

> Currently net_secret_init does not get inlined, so we always have a call
> to net_secret_init even in the fast path.
> 
> Let's specify net_secret_init as __always_inline so we have the nop in
> the fast-path without the call to net_secret_init and the unlikely path
> at the epilogue of the function.
> 
> jump_labels handle the inlining correctly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

Applied, thanks Hannes.
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