From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262236AbUDDHMR (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Apr 2004 03:12:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262235AbUDDHMR (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Apr 2004 03:12:17 -0400 Received: from mtvcafw.sgi.com ([192.48.171.6]:20178 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262236AbUDDHMO (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Apr 2004 03:12:14 -0400 Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 23:11:42 -0800 From: Paul Jackson To: Paul Jackson Cc: wli@holomorphy.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: remove bitmap_shift_*() bitmap length limits Message-Id: <20040403231142.6fe48744.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040401144234.2ef3c205.pj@sgi.com> References: <20040330065152.GJ791@holomorphy.com> <20040330073604.GK791@holomorphy.com> <20040330081142.GL791@holomorphy.com> <20040401133033.435a3857.pj@sgi.com> <20040401144234.2ef3c205.pj@sgi.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hah - save another 16 bytes of kernel text size, by marking _setbitval and _getbitval "inline". Apparently their function call overhead was slightly bigger than their guts, so it's cheaper to have two copies of each. Faster too, I presume. Not that that's the primary concern. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373