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From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unify sys_tkill() and sys_tgkill()
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 21:15:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a874849050924121513b7a85d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050924163818.GA7339@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

On 9/24/05, Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 September 2005 16:52:28 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> > > +static int do_tkill(int tgid, int pid, int sig)
> >
> > I would probably have made this
> >
> >   static inline int do_tkill(int tgid, int pid, int sig)
>
> Why?  It would only return the original duplication in binary form and
> save a minimal amount of time for something already slow - a system
> call.  With small caches, the code duplication could even waste more
> performance than the missing function call would gain you.
>
You are right, I didn't think that through properly.
Thank you for catching that.

> Other nits were well-picked.
>
Thanks.

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Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-24 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-24  2:18 [PATCH] Unify sys_tkill() and sys_tgkill() Vadim Lobanov
2005-09-24 14:52 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-09-24 16:03   ` Serious time drift - clock running fast Howard Chu
2005-09-24 16:38   ` [PATCH] Unify sys_tkill() and sys_tgkill() Jörn Engel
2005-09-24 19:15     ` Jesper Juhl [this message]
2005-09-24 17:47   ` Vadim Lobanov

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