Re: [PATCH 2/8] tracing: create automated trace defines

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> The other point I dislike about the out-of-line approach is that the
> tracer will suffer from a pointless supplementary function call at each
> event. Given how slow function calls are, at least on x86, I'd prefer
> leaving the handler call chain inline, unless there is a very strong
> reason not to do so.
>   

Are they?  They're generally considered to be "free", because the call 
and return are predicted 100% accurately.

> I'll come up with a patch that leaves the tracepoint inline, but fixes
> the header dependency.
>   
OK.

   J
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