[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] v3: Move htl() into cpu.h

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Sat Jun 30 23:35:04 CEST 2007


On 6/30/07, Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de> wrote:
> See patch.
>
> Do we really need or want the "__attribute__((always_inline))"?

Only rarely.

Why we would need it for hlt()? So, in case memory is totally not
working, we don't do a call and try to push stuff on a stack. We want
it inline.

There are very few cases where we should apply always_inline.

ron




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