[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/5] vhost: do not inline packed and split functions

[Maxime Coquelin]

On 5/17/19 3:00 PM, David Marchand wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 2:23 PM Maxime Coquelin 
> <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com <mailto:maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     At runtime either packed Tx/Rx functions will always be called,
>     or split Tx/Rx functions will always be called.
> 
>     This patch removes the forced inlining in order to reduce
>     the I-cache pressure.
> 
> 
> I just wonder if the compiler can't decide on its own to inline those 
> static functions.
> We have __rte_noinline for this.

Good idea, I think it did not happen in my case because the compiler
would find the functions too large to be inlined.

I'll fix that in v2.

Thanks,
Maxime