* Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> The macro is largish, and we have 24 instances of it.
>
> By moving almost its entire body into a function,
> 1500..3000 bytes are saved (depending on .config):
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 12546 0 0 12546 3102 entry_64.o.before
> 9394 0 0 9394 24b2 entry_64.o
>
> Run-tested.
Please list costs and benefits in the changelog. (i.e. increased cache
locality vs. extra instruction[s] executed.)
Thanks,
Ingo
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