RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] inline VMX functions

["Li, Xin B" <xin.b.li@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
>Unless the function call is really hot (in an inner loop for example) I
>don't believe that the performance benefit of inlining is 
>measurable (or
>maybe even exists at all). Against that there are the 
>disadvantages that
>debugging from a backtrace becomes much more of a pain (especially that
>vmexit handler, which becomes *really* big!), and there's a 
>tendency for
>'inline' to spread around like a 'go faster' magic dust, applied to
>functions where it really doesn't help. So I'm moderately 
>inclined not to
>take the inlining bits of this patch unless you strongly disagree.
>

OK, let's not take it, such VMExits are small part of total VMExits.
-Xin

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