Re: [RFC][PATCH] inline a few tiny functions in init/initramfs.c

From: Coywolf Qi Hunt
Date: Tue Sep 27 2005 - 22:01:47 EST


On 9/28/05, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 02:07 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> > Ok, so it seems that there's agreement that the other two inlines in
> > the patch makes sense, but the malloc() is not clear cut.
> >
> > Since this is in initramfs after all it doesn't make that big a
> > difference overall, so I'll just send in a patch that inlines the
> > other two functions but leaves malloc() alone.
> >
>
> Well, they're not particularly performance critical, and everything
> is marked init anyway so I don't know why you would bother changing
> anything ;)
>

Don't you feel "static inline void __init " stupid? (inline + __init)
Anyway don't do things like that manually. Leave the optimization job
to gcc.
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Coywolf Qi Hunt
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