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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/8] Allow inlined spinlocks again V5
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:59:11 +0200
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On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 04:13:54PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> A third question would be, now that we have this flexible method to 
> inline/uninline locking APIs, mind checking say a 64-bit x86 
> defconfig and see whether that generic set of inline/noinline 
> decisions actually results in the smallest possible kernel image 
> size?
> 
> I.e. we could use this opportunity to re-tune the generic defaults. 
> (and thus your patch-set would become an improvement as well.)

Considering the large x86 user base I have no doubts that you
will easily find volunteers who will be happy to do this :)