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From: Niv Sardi <xaiki@cxhome.ath.cx>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] split xfs_ioc_xattr
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:47:13 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ncclk3ejwam.fsf@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080414032940.GA10579@lst.de> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:29:40 +0200")

Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:14:47PM +1000, Niv Sardi wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:
>> > The three subcases of xfs_ioc_xattr don't share any semantics and almost
>> > no code, so split it into three separate helpers.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>> 
>> Looks good to me, aren't the likely() unlinkely() deprecated ? shouldn't
>> they be killed ?
>
> Why would they be deprecated?

just an impression I had from on of Dave's comment to one of my patches:
« Can we kill all the likely() crap out of here? Modern hardware
  branch predictors are far better than static prediction hints. »

But it looks like a matter of taste…

I'll push it in.
-- 
Niv Sardi

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-16  3:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-19 20:40 [PATCH] split xfs_ioc_xattr Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-14  3:14 ` Niv Sardi
2008-04-14  3:29   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-16  3:47     ` Niv Sardi [this message]
2008-04-16  6:37       ` David Chinner
2008-04-16  7:06         ` Timothy Shimmin
2008-04-16  7:29           ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-18  7:06             ` likely and unlikely was: " Timothy Shimmin
2008-04-18 13:34               ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-18 14:05               ` Eric Sandeen
2008-04-21  0:33                 ` David Chinner
2008-04-21  7:55                   ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-21 21:41                     ` David Chinner

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