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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Use __this_cpu_inc() in fast path
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 00:30:07 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 10:07:23 +0200

> This patch saves 224 bytes of text on my machine.
> 
> __this_cpu_inc() generates a single instruction, using no scratch
> registers :
> 
>   65 ff 04 25 a8 30 01 00      incl   %gs:0x130a8
> 
> instead of :
> 
>   48 c7 c2 80 30 01 00         mov    $0x13080,%rdx
>   65 48 8b 04 25 88 ea 00 00   mov    %gs:0xea88,%rax
>   83 44 10 28 01               addl   $0x1,0x28(%rax,%rdx,1)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Applied.