Re: [PATCH] x86: bpf_jit_comp: Reduce is_ereg() code size

[Eric Dumazet]

On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 15:31 -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:

> well, it is a trivial function even from compiler point of view.
> Dropping inline keyword doesn't help. gcc still inlines them.
> Changing all 3 functions to _noinline_ doesn't help either.
> So I think this patch is actually quite helpful to reduce code size.

Well, again this might depend on CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE

I guess people trying to get very small kernels are using this option.

My point was : If we care about code size, we should also remove these
inline keywords at the same time, to increase SNR of netdev/lkml lists.


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