netdev - RE: [PATCH net-next 8/9] ipvlan: improve compiler hints

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Message-ID: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6DCFFE070F@AcuExch.aculab.com>
Date:   Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:27:13 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     "'Duyck, Alexander H'" <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
        "Chiappero, Marco" <marco.chiappero@...el.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
        "Grandhi, Sainath" <sainath.grandhi@...el.com>,
        Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next 8/9] ipvlan: improve compiler hints

From: Duyck, Alexander H
> Sent: 27 April 2017 16:21
...
> > -unsigned int ipvlan_mac_hash(const unsigned char *addr)
> > +inline unsigned int ipvlan_mac_hash(const unsigned char *addr)
> >  {
> >  	u32 hash = jhash_1word(__get_unaligned_cpu32(addr + 2),
> >  			       ipvlan_jhash_secret);
> 
> I'm kind of surprised this isn't causing a problem with differing declarations between the declaration
> here and the declaration in ipvlan.h. Normally for inlining something like this you would change it to
> a "static inline" and move the entire declaration into the header file.

You get a callable copy for external callers and local calls inlined.
Not usually what you want.

	David