Re: [PATCH -v7][RFC]: mutex: implement adaptive spinning

Linus Torvalds
2009-01-10T01:05:31Z

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> Does "always_inline" complain if the function isn't inlinable, while
> "inline" allows it? That would explain the alpha comment.

I suspect it dates back to gcc-3.1 days. It's from 2004. And the author of
that comment is a part-time gcc hacker who was probably offended by the
fact that we thought (correctly) that a lot of gcc inlining was totally
broken.

Since he was the main alpha maintainer, he got to do things his way
there..

Linus