Re: [-mm patch] make kcalloc() a static inline

[Alan Cox]

On Llu, 2005-08-15 at 16:06 +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> and  I saw small reduction in kernel text with kcalloc() inlined. If GCC 
> is, in fact, spreading the extra operations everywhere, shouldn't kernel 
> text be bigger?

Only if the cost of the function call in lines of code is higher than
the inline code. That includes the less obvious cost for the fact that
its a synchronization point so you can't do certain optimisations
through a function call (the function you are calling may read/write any
global/static variable or pointer target).

Alan

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