Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Apr 2002 13:26:45 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] link_path_walk cleanup |
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On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Maneesh Soni wrote: > > > >.. > > +static inline int walk_one(struct nameidata *nd) > > This function is hundreds and hundreds of bytes of code. It has > three call sites. Making it an inline is very inefficient!
Unfortunately, this is a very special case. This sucker is involved in mutual recursion and extra frame on stack will be nasty for, say it, sparc. Normally I would agree that something of that kind should not be inlined, but...
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