netdev - Re: [PATCH v3] jhash: Deinline jhash and jhash2

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Date:	Sun, 19 Jul 2015 11:41:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dvlasenk@...hat.com
Cc:	tgraf@...g.ch, tom@...bertland.com, alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com,
	kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] jhash: Deinline jhash and jhash2

From: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 17:36:00 +0200

> This patch deinlines jhash and jhash2.
> 
> It also removes rhashtable_jhash2(key, length, seed)
> because it was merely calling jhash2(key, length, seed).
> 
> With this .config: http://busybox.net/~vda/kernel_config,
> after deinlining these functions have sizes and callsite counts
> as follows:
> 
> jhash: 297 bytes, 111 calls
> jhash2: 205 bytes, 136 calls
> 
> Total size decrease is about 33,000 bytes:
> 
>     text     data      bss       dec     hex filename
> 90663567 17221960 36659200 144544727 89d93d7 vmlinux5
> 90630370 17221864 36659200 144511434 89d11ca vmlinux.after
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>

No performance metrics at all have been provided, so this should
not be applied.
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