Re: [PATCH] likely cleanup: remove unlikely for kfree(NULL)

[Pekka J Enberg]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Jörn Engel wrote:
> Still, if you could respin this with gcc 4.1 and post the numbers,
> Pekka, that would be quite interesting.

Inlining kfree the way I did doesn't pay off in 4.1 either.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
24910301 6946478 2092332 33949111 20605b7 vmlinux-gcc-3.4.5
24934157 6946530 2092332 33973019 206631b vmlinux-inline-kfree-gcc-3.4.5
24171004 6484710 2090188 32745902 1f3a9ae vmlinux-gcc-4.1.0
24185925 6484722 2090188 32760835 1f3e403 vmlinux-inline-kfree-gcc-4.1.0

				Pekka
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