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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: unify pmd_free() implementation
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:53:46 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807280851130.3486@nehalem.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217260287-13115-1-git-send-email-righi.andrea@gmail.com>


On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Andrea Righi wrote:
>
> Move multiple definitions of pmd_free() from different include/asm-* into
> mm/util.c.

But this is horrible, because it forces a totally unnecessary function 
call for that empty function.

Yeah, the function will be cheap, but the call itself will not be (it's a 
C language barrier and basically disables optimizations around it, causing 
thigns like register spill/reload for no good reason).

		Linus

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-28 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-28 15:51 Andrea Righi
2008-07-28 15:53 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-07-28 16:17   ` Andrea Righi
2008-07-28 16:27     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-07-28 17:19       ` Andrea Righi
2008-07-28 20:30         ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-28 20:46           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-28 22:53             ` [PATCH 1/1] mm: unify pmd_free() and __pmd_free_tlb() implementation Andrea Righi
2008-07-31 16:17               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-31 16:59                 ` Andrea Righi
2008-07-28 16:17   ` [PATCH 1/1] mm: unify pmd_free() implementation James Bottomley
2008-07-28 16:45     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-28 16:58       ` James Bottomley
2008-07-28 17:10         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-28 20:08           ` [PATCH 1/1] mm: unify pmd_free() implementation -> instrumentation Mathieu Desnoyers

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