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DateThu, 30 Jun 2005 09:52:46 +0100
FromRussell King <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] deinline sleep/delay functions
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:52:25AM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Optimizing delay functions for speed is utterly pointless.
> 
> This patch turns ssleep(n), mdelay(n), udelay(n) and ndelay(n)
> into functions, thus they generate the smallest possible code
> at the callsite. Previously they were more or less inlined.
> 
> Run tested. Saved a few kb off vmlinux.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>

Rejected-by: Russell King 8)

The reason is that now we're unable to find out if anyone's doing
udelay(100000000000000000) which breaks on most architectures.
There are a number of compile-time checks that your patch has removed
which catch such things, and as such your patch is not acceptable.
Some architectures have a lower threshold of acceptability for the
maximum udelay value, so it's absolutely necessary to keep this.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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