I found three functions in slab.c that have only 1 caller (kmem_getpages, alloc_slabmgmt, and set_slab_attr), so let's inline them. mcd@arrakis:~/linux/source/linux-2.6.14+slab_cleanup/patches $ diffstat inline_functions.patch slab.c | 9 +++++---- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) -Matt