netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] bonding: simple macro cleanup

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Message-ID: <1400084983.19788.15.camel@joe-AO725>
Date:	Wed, 14 May 2014 09:29:43 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc:	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com>,
	David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@...il.com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] bonding: simple macro cleanup

On Wed, 2014-05-14 at 09:10 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> from compiler point of view it's actually easier to deal with inline functions
> than macros. I'd suggest to do the full conversion the other way around:
> convert all macros to static inline. Developers will enjoy better type safety
> and compiler will enjoy more opportunities to optimize code.

Agree about the type safety, but sometimes a compiler will
generate worse code with static inlines than #defines.


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