Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: deinline netif_tx_stop_queue() and netif_tx_stop_all_queues()

From: Joe Perches <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 11:44:37 -0700

On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 10:14 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> On 05/07/2015 04:41 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > These functions compile to ~60 bytes of machine code each.
> >
> > With this .config: http://busybox.net/~vda/kernel_config
> > there are 617 calls to netif_tx_stop_queue()
> > and 49 calls to netif_tx_stop_all_queues() in vmlinux.
> >
> > Code size is reduced by 27 kbytes:

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> This is the WARN_ON action.  One thing you might try doing is moving 
> this to a function of its own instead of moving the entire thing out of 
> being an inline.  You may find you still get most of the space savings 
> as I wonder if the string for the printk isn't being duplicated for each 
> caller.

It is effectively duplicated (with different prefixes) if there is a
#define pr_fmt(fmt) "some_prefix: " fmt
before this code is reached.  That's most callers now.

The code that doesn't have a pr_fmt should get symbol deduplicated
at link time.