Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: deinline netif_tx_stop_queue() and netif_tx_stop_all_queues() | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Thu, 07 May 2015 11:44:37 -0700 |
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On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 10:14 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote: > On 05/07/2015 04:41 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > These functions compile to ~60 bytes of machine code each. > > > > With this .config: http://busybox.net/~vda/kernel_config > > there are 617 calls to netif_tx_stop_queue() > > and 49 calls to netif_tx_stop_all_queues() in vmlinux. > > > > Code size is reduced by 27 kbytes:
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> This is the WARN_ON action. One thing you might try doing is moving > this to a function of its own instead of moving the entire thing out of > being an inline. You may find you still get most of the space savings > as I wonder if the string for the printk isn't being duplicated for each > caller.
It is effectively duplicated (with different prefixes) if there is a #define pr_fmt(fmt) "some_prefix: " fmt before this code is reached. That's most callers now.
The code that doesn't have a pr_fmt should get symbol deduplicated at link time.
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