netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: deinline netif_tx_stop_all_queues(), remove WARN_ON in netif_tx_stop

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Message-ID: <20150512160016.GA3491@Alexeis-MBP.westell.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 May 2015 09:00:17 -0700
From:	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: deinline netif_tx_stop_all_queues(), remove WARN_ON
 in netif_tx_stop_queue()

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 09:17:53PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> These functions compile to 60 bytes of machine code each.
> With this .config: http://busybox.net/~vda/kernel_config
> there are 617 calls of netif_tx_stop_queue()
> and 49 calls of netif_tx_stop_all_queues() in vmlinux.
> 
> To fix this, remove WARN_ON in netif_tx_stop_queue()
> as suggested by davem, and deinline netif_tx_stop_all_queues().
> 
> Change in code size is about 20k:
> 
>    text      data      bss       dec     hex filename
> 82426986 22255416 20627456 125309858 77813a2 vmlinux.before
> 82406248 22255416 20627456 125289120 777c2a0 vmlinux

nice code shrink. Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>

btw, in the future please say [PATCH net-next] as part of subject
to make it clear what tree this patch is going to.

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