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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-17 12:52:15 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-17 12:56:49 +0200
commiteadb8a091b27a840de7450f84ecff5ef13476424 (patch)
tree58c3782d40def63baa8167f3d31e3048cb4c7660 /Documentation/CodingStyle
parenthw-breakpoints: fix undeclared ksym_tracer_mutex (diff)
parentMerge branch 'next-i2c' of git://aeryn.fluff.org.uk/bjdooks/linux (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpoints
Conflicts: arch/x86/Kconfig arch/x86/kernel/traps.c arch/x86/power/cpu.c arch/x86/power/cpu_32.c kernel/Makefile Semantic conflict: arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts, move from put_cpu_no_sched() to put_cpu() in arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@@ -698,8 +698,8 @@ very often is not. Abundant use of the inline keyword leads to a much bigger
kernel, which in turn slows the system as a whole down, due to a bigger
icache footprint for the CPU and simply because there is less memory
available for the pagecache. Just think about it; a pagecache miss causes a
-disk seek, which easily takes 5 miliseconds. There are a LOT of cpu cycles
-that can go into these 5 miliseconds.
+disk seek, which easily takes 5 milliseconds. There are a LOT of cpu cycles
+that can go into these 5 milliseconds.
A reasonable rule of thumb is to not put inline at functions that have more
than 3 lines of code in them. An exception to this rule are the cases where