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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-14 13:46:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-14 13:46:25 -0700
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (31 commits) trivial: remove the trivial patch monkey's name from SubmittingPatches trivial: Fix a typo in comment of addrconf_dad_start() trivial: usb: fix missing space typo in doc trivial: pci hotplug: adding __init/__exit macros to sgi_hotplug trivial: Remove the hyphen from git commands trivial: fix ETIMEOUT -> ETIMEDOUT typos trivial: Kconfig: .ko is normally not included in module names trivial: SubmittingPatches: fix typo trivial: Documentation/dell_rbu.txt: fix typos trivial: Fix Pavel's address in MAINTAINERS trivial: ftrace:fix description of trace directory trivial: unnecessary (void*) cast removal in sound/oss/msnd.c trivial: input/misc: Fix typo in Kconfig trivial: fix grammo in bus_for_each_dev() kerneldoc trivial: rbtree.txt: fix rb_entry() parameters in sample code trivial: spelling fix in ppc code comments trivial: fix typo in bio_alloc kernel doc trivial: Documentation/rbtree.txt: cleanup kerneldoc of rbtree.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes trivial: fix typo milisecond/millisecond for documentation and source comments. ...
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@@ -698,8 +698,8 @@ very often is not. Abundant use of the inline keyword leads to a much bigger
kernel, which in turn slows the system as a whole down, due to a bigger
icache footprint for the CPU and simply because there is less memory
available for the pagecache. Just think about it; a pagecache miss causes a
-disk seek, which easily takes 5 miliseconds. There are a LOT of cpu cycles
-that can go into these 5 miliseconds.
+disk seek, which easily takes 5 milliseconds. There are a LOT of cpu cycles
+that can go into these 5 milliseconds.
A reasonable rule of thumb is to not put inline at functions that have more
than 3 lines of code in them. An exception to this rule are the cases where