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Date:	Mon, 06 Oct 2014 12:35:03 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: validate_xmit_vlan() is static

On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 11:44 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 11:26 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> > 
> > Marking this as static allows compiler to inline it.
> 
> Found by inspection or another tool?
> 
> Wasn't there some tool to look for non-static functions
> that are not called externally that could/should be
> converted to static?

Found by inspecting and analyzing performance on real workload.

Note prior commits :

bec3cfdca36bf43cfa3751ad7b56db1a307e0760 net: skb_segment() provides list head and tail
01291202ed4ad548f9a7147d20425cb1d24f49a7 net: do not export skb_gro_receive()
55a93b3ea780908b7d1b3a8cf1976223a9268d78 qdisc: validate skb without holding lock


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