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DateWed, 5 Jul 2006 11:37:56 +0100
FromChristoph Hellwig <>
SubjectRe: [patch] uninline init_waitqueue_*() functions
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:32:59AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
> > shrinks fs/select.o by eight bytes.  (More than I expected).  So it 
> > does appear to be a space win, but a pretty slim one.
> 
> there are 855 calls to these functions in the allyesconfig vmlinux i 
> did, and i measured a combined size reduction of 34791 bytes. That 
> averages to a 40 bytes win per call site. (on i386.)

And more importantly it's a function that's called in slowpathes per
definition.  So saving text sounds like a good idea, how minimal it
may be.

> 
> 	Ingo
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