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From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
To: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Cc: Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 7/8] [SCTP]: uninline sctp_add_cmd_sf
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:27:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47BD9872.9050308@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802210020350.17063@kivilampi-30.cs.helsinki.fi>

Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> 
>> Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
>>> I added inline to sctp_add_cmd and appropriate comment there to
>>> avoid adding another call into the call chain. This works at least
>>> with "gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-13)". Alternatively,
>>> __sctp_add_cmd could be introduced to .h.
>>>
>> My only concern was performance regressions, but it looks like it
>> doesn't effect anything from the few quick runs I've made.
> 
> There was one call made anyway, it's a bit hard to see how it would hurt 
> to push that BUG() deeper down (in fact, this is one of the easiest case 
> in this respect, many other cases elsewhere that need uninlining don't 
> currently make any calls with inlines).
> 
>> Since we are putting sctp_add_cmd_sf() on the call stack, we might
>> as well get rid of sctp_add_cmd() and reduce it a bit more.
> 
> IMHO it is definately better solution for archiving the size reduction,
> I just didn't know before that the only sctp_add_cmd call could be 
> converted.

That one was a really silly one.  The chance of not calling BUG() in
that one case was so small, that it didn't really make any sense from
the code robustness side.

> 
> [...snip...]
>> diff --git a/net/sctp/command.c b/net/sctp/command.c
>> index bb97733..3a06513 100644
>> --- a/net/sctp/command.c
>> +++ b/net/sctp/command.c
>> @@ -51,19 +51,16 @@ int sctp_init_cmd_seq(sctp_cmd_seq_t *seq)
>>  
>>  /* Add a command to a sctp_cmd_seq_t.
>>   * Return 0 if the command sequence is full.
>> + *
>> + * Inline here is not a mistake, this way sctp_add_cmd_sf doesn't need extra
>> + * calls, size penalty is of insignificant magnitude here
> 
> This won't be a necessary note anymore. :-)
> 
> [...snip...]
> 

Yeah.  If you are going to resubmit, feel free to put my Signed-off-by line.

-vlad

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-21 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-20 13:47 [RFC PATCH 0/8]: uninline & uninline Ilpo Järvinen
2008-02-20 13:47 ` [RFC PATCH 1/8] [NET]: uninline skb_put, de-bloats a lot Ilpo Järvinen
2008-02-20 13:47   ` [RFC PATCH 2/8] [NET]: uninline skb_pull, " Ilpo Järvinen
2008-02-20 13:47     ` [RFC PATCH 3/8] [NET]: uninline dev_alloc_skb, " Ilpo Järvinen
2008-02-20 13:47       ` [RFC PATCH 4/8] [NET]: uninline skb_push, " Ilpo Järvinen
2008-02-20 13:47         ` [RFC PATCH 5/8] [NET]: uninline dst_release Ilpo Järvinen
2008-02-20 13:47           ` [RFC PATCH 6/8] [NET]: uninline skb_trim, de-bloats Ilpo Järvinen
2008-02-20 13:47             ` [RFC PATCH 7/8] [SCTP]: uninline sctp_add_cmd_sf Ilpo Järvinen
2008-02-20 13:47               ` [RFC PATCH 8/8] Jhash in too big for inlining, move under lib/ Ilpo Järvinen
2008-02-23  8:02                 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-23 10:05                   ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-02-23 18:21                     ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-23 13:06                   ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-20 22:16               ` [RFC PATCH 7/8] [SCTP]: uninline sctp_add_cmd_sf Vlad Yasevich
2008-02-20 22:34                 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-02-21 15:27                   ` Vlad Yasevich [this message]
2008-02-20 16:19       ` [RFC PATCH 3/8] [NET]: uninline dev_alloc_skb, de-bloats a lot Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-20 16:27         ` Patrick McHardy
2008-02-20 16:30           ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-20 22:18             ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-03-12 15:27               ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-02-20 13:54   ` [RFC PATCH 1/8] [NET]: uninline skb_put, " Patrick McHardy
2008-02-20 13:57   ` Eric Dumazet
2008-02-23  8:02 ` [RFC PATCH 0/8]: uninline & uninline Andrew Morton
2008-02-23 10:11   ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-02-23 13:15   ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-23 18:06     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-02-23 18:55     ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-23 19:58       ` Hua Zhong
2008-02-23 21:02         ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-27 19:08       ` profile-likely patch (was " Valdis.Kletnieks

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