Re: [PATCH] drivers/atm/horizon.c: stop inlining largish staticfunctions

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Apr 14 2008 - 00:55:01 EST


From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:21:42 +0200

> drivers/atm/horizon.c has unusually large number
> of static inline functions - 36.
>
> I looked through them. Most of them seems to be small enough,
> but a few are big, others are using udelay or busy loop,
> and as such are better not be inlined.
>
> This patch removes "inline" from these static functions
> (regardless of number of callsites - gcc nowadays auto-inlines
> statics with one callsite).
>
> Size difference for 32bit x86:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 8201 180 6 8387 20c3 linux-2.6-ALLYES/drivers/atm/horizon.o
> 7840 180 6 8026 1f5a linux-2.6.inline-ALLYES/drivers/atm/horizon.o
>
> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to net-2.6.26, thanks Denys.
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