Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Nov 2012 12:05:13 +0100 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 19/29] memcg: infrastructure to match an allocation to the right cache |
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On Tue 06-11-12 09:03:54, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Mon 05-11-12 16:28:37, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 16:07:35 +0400 > > Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> wrote: > > > > > +static __always_inline struct kmem_cache * > > > +memcg_kmem_get_cache(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t gfp) > > > > I still don't understand why this code uses __always_inline so much. > > AFAIU, __always_inline (resp. __attribute__((always_inline))) is the > same thing as inline if optimizations are enabled > (http://ohse.de/uwe/articles/gcc-attributes.html#func-always_inline).
And this doesn't tell the whole story because there is -fearly-inlining which enabled by default and it makes a difference when optimizations are enabled so __always_inline really enforces inlining.
-- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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