Re: Large inlines in include/linux/skbuff.h

[James Morris]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > How will these changes impact performance?  I asked this last time you 
> > posted about inlines and didn't see any response.
> 
> I don't think it will be an issue. The optimization guidelines
> of AMD and Intel recommend to move functions that generate 
> more than 30-40 instructions out of line. 100 instructions 
> is certainly enough to amortize the call overhead, and you 
> safe some icache too so it may be even faster.

Of course, but it would be good to see some measurements.


- James
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James Morris
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