From: Joonsoo Kim Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 22:26:09 +0000 (-0700) Subject: mm/slab: factor out unlikely part of cache_free_alien() X-Git-Tag: fixes-against-v3.18-rc2~137^2~117 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=25c4f304be8cd6831105d3a2876028e4ecd254a1;p=pandora-kernel.git mm/slab: factor out unlikely part of cache_free_alien() cache_free_alien() is rarely used function when node mismatch. But, it is defined with inline attribute so it is inlined to __cache_free() which is core free function of slab allocator. It uselessly makes kmem_cache_free()/kfree() functions large. What we really need to inline is just checking node match so this patch factor out other parts of cache_free_alien() to reduce code size of kmem_cache_free()/ kfree(). nm -S mm/slab.o | grep -e "T kfree" -e "T kmem_cache_free" 00000000000011e0 0000000000000228 T kfree 0000000000000670 0000000000000216 T kmem_cache_free nm -S mm/slab.o | grep -e "T kfree" -e "T kmem_cache_free" 0000000000001110 00000000000001b5 T kfree 0000000000000750 0000000000000181 T kmem_cache_free You can see slightly reduced size of text: 0x228->0x1b5, 0x216->0x181. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Zhang Yanfei Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed