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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] rmap: Staticize page_referenced_file and page_referenced_anon
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On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 09:27 -0500, Kautuk Consul wrote:
>> Staticize the page_referenced_anon and page_referenced_file
>> functions.
>> These functions are called only from page_referenced.
>
> Subject and changelog say: staticize, which I read to mean: make static.
> Yet what the patch does is make them inline ?!?

Yes, sorry my mistake. :)

>
> Also, if they're static and there's only a single callsite, gcc will
> already inline them, does this patch really make a difference?

I just sent this patch for what I thought was "correctness", but I guess
we can let this be if you are absolutely sure that all GCC cross compilers
for all platforms will guarantee inlining.



>
>> -static int page_referenced_anon(struct page *page,
>> +static inline int page_referenced_anon(struct page *page,
>
>


Please reply back if you feel I should resend this patch with modified
description.
Else, I'll just forget about this one. :)


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