On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 11:51:35AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 11:42 AM Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote: > > > > Do you want me to do that patch, or have you already just done it? > > I'd rather see it go through something like -tip than doing it myself > directly, and get at least some of the automated testing before > unleashing it on an unsuspecting world. > > I don't think it will affect much, but there *could* be situations > where there are some crusty __inline__ users that actually want > __always_inline behavior. > > And we *may* actually have cases where we want the "let compiler make > a judgement call" behavior, so with this change people will have that > as an option. But yes, in the short term, it has the possibility of > regressions due to missed inlining.
Fair enough; I'll do the patch and let it soak a bit in tip. Thanks!
