Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] MCS Lock: Make mcs_spinlock.h includable in otherfiles

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Nov 05 2013 - 13:57:59 EST


On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 09:42:39AM -0800, Tim Chen wrote:
> + * The _raw_mcs_spin_lock() function should not be called directly. Instead,
> + * users should call mcs_spin_lock().
> */
> -static noinline
> -void mcs_spin_lock(struct mcs_spinlock **lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
> +static inline
> +void _raw_mcs_spin_lock(struct mcs_spinlock **lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
> {
> struct mcs_spinlock *prev;
>

So why keep it in the header at all?
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