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From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v7][RFC]: mutex: implement adaptive spinning
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:08:17 -0800
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Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 02:01 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

>  - Headers could probably go back to 'extern inline' again. At not small 
>    expense - we just finished moving to 'static inline'. We'd need to 
>    guarantee a library instantiation for every header include file - this 
>    is an additional mechanism with additional introduction complexities 
>    and an ongoing maintenance cost.

Puzzled?  What benefit is there to going back to extern inline in headers?

Harvey