Re: [PATCH] x86: slightly shorten __ticket_spin_trylock() (v3)

[Ingo Molnar]

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >
> > -static __always_inline int __ticket_spin_trylock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
> > +static __always_inline u8 __ticket_spin_trylock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
>
[...]
>
> I dunno. I still don't get the feeling that any of this actually 
> _matters_.

Jan, to apply this patch it would be nice to see a before/after 
comparison/analysis of a defconfig vmlinux image with a reasonably uptodate 
GCC - to see how much this all matters in practice.

	Ingo
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