Re: [PATCH 00/16] timers/hrtimers: Minor cleanups: Part II

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Mar 31 2014 - 11:51:51 EST


On Mon, 31 Mar 2014, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 31 March 2014 19:08, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > And those cleanups make the compiler generate worse code at least on
> > x86_64:
> >
> > text data bss dec hex filename
> > 7475 554 0 8029 1f5d kernel/hrtimer.o
> > 7706 554 0 8260 2044 kernel/hrtimer.o
> >
> > So just removing parameters and return values because you can get the
> > same information from a datastructure is not necessarily a good thing.
>
> Hmm.. Nice.
>
> Okay, I will have another look at patches and do this kind of investigation
> before sending it next time :) Its been fun going through these frameworks.
>
> How do you want to proceed now? I mean, you will take the other patches
> (which don't play with function parameters) as is or want me to send a single
> unified patchset with all the pending patches that I have?

I still want to go through the lot and review them, but I wont take
anything before the end of the merge window.

Thanks,

tglx
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