On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > But do we
> > care so much that it's worth inlining something like buffered_rmqueue()?
> >...
>
> Where is the problem with having buffered_rmqueue() inlined?
In this case, it was a pain to just even try to find the call chain, or
read the asm.
I would encourage lots of kernel hackers to read the assembler code gcc
generates. I suspect people being aware of code generation issues (and
writing their code with that in mind) is a *much* bigger performance
impact than gcc inlining random functions.
So maybe I'm old-fashioned and crazy, but "readability of the asm result"
actually is a worthwhile goal. Not because we care directly, but because
I'd like to encourage people to do it, due to the *indirect* benefits.
Linus
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