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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	benh@kernel.crashing.org, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:52:21 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <421E5AA5.3040100@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0502242224070.14886@goblin.wat.veritas.com>

Hugh Dickins wrote:
> 
> At one stage I was adding unlikelies to all the p??_bads, then it
> seemed more sensible to hide that in a new macro (which of course
> must do the none and bad tests inline, before going off to the function).
> 

Yeah that sounds OK. I think (un)likely can propagate through
inline functions too, if that's any help to you.

> 
> We could at little cost.  But I think if these messages come up at all,
> they're likely to come up in clumps, where the backtrace won't actually
> be giving any interesting info, and the quantity of them be a nuisance
> itself.  I'd rather leave it to the next person who gets the error and
> wants the backtrace to add it.
> 

You're probably right - I know when I see them (from my
hacking up the code) they usually come in clumps :P

Nick


      reply	other threads:[~2005-02-24 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-17 13:53 [PATCH 1/2] optimise copy page range Nick Piggin
2005-02-17 14:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators Nick Piggin
2005-02-17 15:56   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-17 16:13     ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-17 19:43   ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-17 22:49     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-17 23:03       ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-17 23:21         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-17 23:34           ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-17 23:30         ` David S. Miller
2005-02-17 23:57           ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-20 12:35             ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-21  6:35               ` Hugh Dickins
2005-02-21  6:40                 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-21  7:09                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-21  8:09                     ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-21  9:04                       ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-22  9:54                 ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-23  2:06                   ` Hugh Dickins
2005-02-23  4:31                     ` David S. Miller
2005-02-23  4:49                       ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-23  4:57                         ` David S. Miller
2005-02-23  5:23                       ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-23 23:52                     ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-24  0:00                       ` David S. Miller
2005-02-24  5:12                       ` Hugh Dickins
2005-02-24  5:59                         ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-24 11:58                           ` Hugh Dickins
2005-02-24 19:33                             ` David S. Miller
2005-02-25 10:44                               ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-24 21:59                             ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-24 22:32                               ` Hugh Dickins
2005-02-24 22:52                                 ` Nick Piggin [this message]

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