Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:15:47 -0400 (EDT) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: Large inlines in include/linux/skbuff.h |
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On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > How will these changes impact performance? I asked this last time you > > posted about inlines and didn't see any response. > > I don't think it will be an issue. The optimization guidelines > of AMD and Intel recommend to move functions that generate > more than 30-40 instructions out of line. 100 instructions > is certainly enough to amortize the call overhead, and you > safe some icache too so it may be even faster.
Of course, but it would be good to see some measurements.
- James -- James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>
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