On Tue, 2 Feb 2021, Abel Wu wrote: > Since slab_alloc_node() is the only caller of __slab_alloc(), embed > __slab_alloc() to its caller to save function call overhead. This > will also expand the caller's code block size a bit, but hackbench > tests on both host and guest didn't show a difference w/ or w/o > this patch. slab_alloc_node is an always_inline function. It is intentional that only the fast path was inlined and not the slow path.