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

[David S. Miller]

On 23 Apr 2004 00:23:26 +0200
Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx> wrote:

> > Of course, but it would be good to see some measurements.
> 
> It's useless in this case. networking is dominated by cache misses
> and locks and a modern CPU can do hundreds of function calls in a 
> single cache miss.

Indeed, this change does influence the I-cache footprint of the
networking, so I conclude that it is relevant in this case.
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