netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] rhashtable: allow lookup function to have compare function agument

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jul 2015 08:43:52 -0700
From:	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] rhashtable: allow lookup function to have
 compare function agument

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 2:44 AM, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch> wrote:
> On 07/13/15 at 05:39pm, Tom Herbert wrote:
>> Added rhashtable_lookup_fast_cmpfn which does a lookup in an rhash table
>> with the compare function being taken from an argument. This allows
>> different compare functions to be used on the same table.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
>
> Does this preserve the inlining guarantee? I remember Herbert had
> to write this carefully in order to avoid indirect calls.

It looks like the compare functions are still being properly inlined.
This is gcc 4.4.7.

Thanks,
Tom
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