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SubjectRe: Inline hunt results for 4.3.0-rc1
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2015, at 16:17, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa
> <hannes@stressinduktion.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015, at 15:32, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> >> I have created a set of semi-automated scripts which look for
> >> large inlines in the kernel.
> >>
> >> Recently I taught it to even generate "git format-patch" patches
> >> (unfortunately, only for inlines in *.c files, not *.h),
> >> and here are they for 4.3.0-rc1 - i.e. current Linus tree.
> >>
> >> Submitting 300+ patches separately would amount to spamming,
> >> instead I encourage people to take a look at the patches
> >> on the Web:
> >>
> >> http://busybox.net/~vda/inline_hunt/4.3.0-rc1/
> >> http://busybox.net/~vda/inline_hunt/4.3.0-rc1/README
> >>
> >> and in particular, at the set of most juicy patches, each of which
> >> shaves off more than 1000 bytes off its *.c module:
> >>
> >> http://busybox.net/~vda/inline_hunt/4.3.0-rc1/patch_saves1000/
> >
> > Does gcc -finline-limit=2000 somehow has the same effect?
>
> I'm afraid that's not a solution.

Ok, thank you.

> Any compiler-option-based fix would only work for inlines in *.c
> files, but at the same time it would replicate inlines in *.h files
> many times (once per module which calls the "auto-deinlined" inline).

Do your patches also detect functions which are in Header files with
static inline and we take their address often? Maybe dst_output(_sk)
could be an example?

Bye,
Hanes


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