Re: [2.6 patch] arch/s390/Makefile: remove -finline-limit=10000

["David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:21:20 +0100

> On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 21:57 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > -finline-limit might have been required for older compilers, but 
> > nowadays it does no longer make sense.
> 
> I didn't check the effects of reverting to the default inline-limit, did
> you find any negative impacts? I'm thinking about the critical code
> paths e.g. minor faults. There better should not be an additional
> function call that would have been inlined with the bigger inline limit,
> since function calls are quite expensive on s390.

You need to be careful now that -Os is specified by default
in 2.6.x

The inline-limit GCC option is interpreted differently in
gcc-4.x when -Os is given vs. when it is not.

On Sparc this caused schedule() to be inlined (I'm not kidding)
which caused all kinds of troubles.

I highly recommed you don't specify it and let the compiler
make the decisions, and add inline tags to places where you
think it is hyper-important for inlining to occur.