Pavel Begunkov says:
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generic net and ipv6 minor optimisations
1-3 inline simple functions that only reshuffle arguments possibly adding
extra zero args, and call another function. It was benchmarked before with
a bunch of extra patches, see for details
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/cover.
1648981570.git.asml.silence@gmail.com/
It may increase the binary size, but it's the right thing to do and at least
without modules it actually sheds some bytes for some standard-ish config.
text data bss dec hex filename
9627200 0 0
9627200 92e640 ./arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage
text data bss dec hex filename
9627104 0 0
9627104 92e5e0 ./arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>