On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 17:37 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 08:04 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_get_page_nodiscard); > > > + > > > +#endif > > > > Is it worth having another full copy of find_get_page()? What about a > > "nodiscard" argument? > > That is a hard call to make. I really tried hard to avoid adding any > overhead to a system running without the feature. The overhead being the extra (potentially unused) argument to the function? Plus, that the function isn't inlined and thus will be unable to have its argument optimized away? In the worse case, we're talking about the cost of saving and restoring the contents of a single register to the stack. In other arches, we're talking about the push of an immediate on the stack for the call. Yeah, it is a hard call to make, especially if you're aiming for zero-impact. -- Dave
