James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> writes:

> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
>
>> + */
>> +inline void inode_init_owner(struct inode *inode, const struct inode *dir,
>> +			int mode)
>> +{
>
> You should only try and inline functions which are smaller than about 100 
> bytes or which have fewer than four lines of code.  Also, the compiler can 
> generally figure out which functions to inline. 
Indeed.