Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/3] net/virtio: inline refill and offload helpers

["Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China)" <Gavin.Hu@arm.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Jens Freimann
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2018 5:25 PM
> To: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; tiwei.bie@intel.com; zhihong.wang@intel.com
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/3] net/virtio: inline refill and offload
> helpers
> 
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 02:48:02PM +0100, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> >Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
> >---
> > drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c | 8 ++++----
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c
> >b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c
> >index eb891433e..e1c270b1c 100644
> >--- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c
> >+++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c
> >@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ virtio_dev_tx_queue_setup_finish(struct
> rte_eth_dev *dev,
> > 	return 0;
> > }
> >
> >-static void
> >+static inline void
> > virtio_discard_rxbuf(struct virtqueue *vq, struct rte_mbuf *m)  {
> > 	int error;
> >@@ -757,7 +757,7 @@ virtio_discard_rxbuf(struct virtqueue *vq, struct
> rte_mbuf *m)
> > 	}
> > }
> >
> >-static void
> >+static inline void
> > virtio_discard_rxbuf_inorder(struct virtqueue *vq, struct rte_mbuf *m)
> >{
> > 	int error;
> >@@ -769,7 +769,7 @@ virtio_discard_rxbuf_inorder(struct virtqueue *vq,
> struct rte_mbuf *m)
> > 	}
> > }
> >
> >-static void
> >+static inline void
> > virtio_update_packet_stats(struct virtnet_stats *stats, struct
> >rte_mbuf *mbuf)  {
> > 	uint32_t s = mbuf->pkt_len;
> >@@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ virtio_rx_stats_updated(struct virtnet_rx *rxvq,
> >struct rte_mbuf *m)  }
> >
> > /* Optionally fill offload information in structure */ -static int
> >+static inline int
> > virtio_rx_offload(struct rte_mbuf *m, struct virtio_net_hdr *hdr) {
> > 	struct rte_net_hdr_lens hdr_lens;
> 
> since these are all static functions, does declaring them inline actually help
> or are they inlined anyway by the compiler?
> 
> regards,
> Jens

By disassembling the code, static function calls translate to "bl XXX", that means they are not inline.
Inline is not always working, maybe __rte_always_inline is required here? 
/Gavin