On 02/19/2010 08:45 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: >> >> You're still not inlining these. They should be: there is absolutely no >> reason for code size to not inline them anymore. > > Isn't better to have only those 4 locations for apply_alternatives to > patch wrt to popcnt instead of sprinkling alternatives sections around > the kernel in every callsite of hweight and its users? Or is the aim to > optimize even that "call __arch_hweightXX" away? > That's the idea, yes. We use inline alternatives in quite a few other places. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
