Re: [PATCH] deinline a few large functions in vlan code v2

[Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>]

Hi Dave,

On Wednesday, 12. April 2006 19:18, Dave Dillow wrote:
> you've left the spin_locks in, and have more #ifdefs.

Ok, I can refactor your driver to even remove this and reduce it to exaxtly 
two ifdef sections for your driver. Acceptable?
 
> Regardless, I remain opposed to this particular instance of bloat 
> busting. While both patches have improved in style, they remove a useful 
> feature and make the code less clean, for no net gain.

s/useful feature/unreachable code/g

> On SMP FC4, typhoon.ko has a text size of 68330, so you need to cut 2794 
> bytes to see an actual difference in memory usage for a module. Non-SMP 
> it is 67741, so there you only need to cut 2205 bytes to get a win.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  62079     973       4   63056    f650 no-vlan/drivers/net/typhoon.o
  62654     973       4   63631    f88f vlan/drivers/net/typhoon.o

with allyesconfig (minus CONFIG_INFO) and my patches applied.
So maybe the uninlining is enough. Gain after this is just 575 bytes here.


Regards

Ingo Oeser