From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752821Ab2I0AD7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:03:59 -0400 Received: from nm10.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com ([98.139.212.169]:42928 "HELO nm10.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751167Ab2I0ADy (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:03:54 -0400 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 530763.94523.bm@omp1022.access.mail.mud.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: ClGUYAQVM1nnODR_x89IvnvlsGQ8FuMhFetqqPFctE45j4E 28wA.rAaEF8M2u9f4505ZK4ayJzuxTIuoEo6n5nUTBPKxqrM5tkDmwJgu2Dw 4YAmQ.cyv8ob6OTF1S_X7mb8vm83t7ul8vH8.h48SwsvsrgaLo2ZYvD6Bvgc hTSTf2r.n0mfWbfU0K32VAHmbHP406QzfFTVRBAb0JIgRjjlDHfa1vTOgHIt uRXZZAhlLH9azv9spuEMApH4DRtSkXn297O0jthk35nVQf72eJLpvlj6W1Lf 2rLzHo.tav5RvbRlEsHkOfsQS97a8NWVIqivekksV16Cr.SIaEduLCS2NzjQ rFO3svqohPHmvXgoJkeGfp9vQWxNEMUmAzK2aco63.7WolxbKk900bUIQ1fu onmWbST1PLV6ZklhSzEycZbBUCfZL7fnlXtCPucyyBu2UmqX58A-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: xXkkXk6swBBAi.5wfkIWFW3ugxbrqyhyk_b4Z25Sfu.XGQ-- Message-ID: <506397E9.1070000@att.net> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:03:53 -0500 From: Daniel Santos Reply-To: Daniel Santos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.4) Gecko/20120502 Thunderbird/10.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Daniel Santos , LKML , linux-mm@kvack.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: Please be aware that __always_inline doesn't mean "always inline"! References: <50638DCC.5040506@att.net> <20120926165044.46b8f7d6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20120926165044.46b8f7d6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/26/2012 06:50 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > As I mentioned in the other thread, the __always_inline's in fs/namei.c > (at least) are doing exactly what we want them to do, so some more > investigation is needed here? Yes, definitely. When I did some tests on it (to confirm the behavior) a few months ago, it did behave as advertised. Sounds like this definitely needs more research. Thanks Andrew. Daniel