Re: [PATCH] 2.4: always_inline for gcc3

[J.A. Magallon]

On 08.26, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> Can you please explain me what are the differences when using "__inline__
> __attribute__((always_inline))" and why you chose to use that?
> 

gcc3 did not inline big functions, even if they were marked as inline
Thread:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103632325600005&r=1&w=2
Things like memcpy and copy_to/from_user were affected.
They were not inlined and you got tons of instances in vmlinux.

An initial patch was proposed by Denis Vlasenko, and refined by
akpm I think.

TIA

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