Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:36:49 -0700 | | Subject | Re: [PATCH wireless-next 2/3] ath5k: Introduce _ath5k_printk to reduce code/text | | From | Adrian Chadd <> |
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Hi,
So the reason this is a macro in the FreeBSD HAL is so that the args aren't evaluated unless the level (or debug bitmap in my case) fires off.
Otherwise compiling in debugging will cause a _lot_ of spurious register reads to occur that are then tossed. This was one of the big reasons for instability and slow performance when AH_DEBUG was enabled.
Adrian
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