svn commit: r266974 - in head/sys: dev/dc dev/fxp dev/mii dev/netmap kern net

[Ian Lepore]

On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 11:42 -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Jun 2, 2014, at 11:27 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > .. and actually, bikeshedding for a moment, would we be able to move a
> > lot of these accessor methods over to inlines? Would that break the
> > Juniper way of doing things?
> 
> That would definitely break Juniper as it doesn't give a stable
> ABI.
> 
> I've suggested an approach that allows for both, but it was deemed
> unnecessary. The argument being that the function call overhead is
> negligible.
> 
> We can always revisit that decision if needed...
> 

In my experience, function call overhead is anything but minimal,
especially on ARM platforms.

-- Ian