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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-14 16:46:25 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-14 16:46:25 -0400
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (31 commits) trivial: remove the trivial patch monkey's name from SubmittingPatches trivial: Fix a typo in comment of addrconf_dad_start() trivial: usb: fix missing space typo in doc trivial: pci hotplug: adding __init/__exit macros to sgi_hotplug trivial: Remove the hyphen from git commands trivial: fix ETIMEOUT -> ETIMEDOUT typos trivial: Kconfig: .ko is normally not included in module names trivial: SubmittingPatches: fix typo trivial: Documentation/dell_rbu.txt: fix typos trivial: Fix Pavel's address in MAINTAINERS trivial: ftrace:fix description of trace directory trivial: unnecessary (void*) cast removal in sound/oss/msnd.c trivial: input/misc: Fix typo in Kconfig trivial: fix grammo in bus_for_each_dev() kerneldoc trivial: rbtree.txt: fix rb_entry() parameters in sample code trivial: spelling fix in ppc code comments trivial: fix typo in bio_alloc kernel doc trivial: Documentation/rbtree.txt: cleanup kerneldoc of rbtree.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes trivial: fix typo milisecond/millisecond for documentation and source comments. ...
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@@ -698,8 +698,8 @@ very often is not. Abundant use of the inline keyword leads to a much bigger
698kernel, which in turn slows the system as a whole down, due to a bigger 698kernel, which in turn slows the system as a whole down, due to a bigger
699icache footprint for the CPU and simply because there is less memory 699icache footprint for the CPU and simply because there is less memory
700available for the pagecache. Just think about it; a pagecache miss causes a 700available for the pagecache. Just think about it; a pagecache miss causes a
701disk seek, which easily takes 5 miliseconds. There are a LOT of cpu cycles 701disk seek, which easily takes 5 milliseconds. There are a LOT of cpu cycles
702that can go into these 5 miliseconds. 702that can go into these 5 milliseconds.
703 703
704A reasonable rule of thumb is to not put inline at functions that have more 704A reasonable rule of thumb is to not put inline at functions that have more
705than 3 lines of code in them. An exception to this rule are the cases where 705than 3 lines of code in them. An exception to this rule are the cases where