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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@sfgoth.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oops_in_progress is unlikely()
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:29:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030910152902.GA2764@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030910142308.GL932@redhat.com>

Hi!

>  > > none of this patch seems to touch particularly performance critical code.
>  > > Is it really worth adding these macros to every if statement in the kernel?
>  > > There comes a point where readability is lost, for no measurable gain.
>  > 
>  > Perhaps we should have macros ifu() and ifl(), that would be used as a
>  > plain if, just with likelyness-indication? That way we could have it
>  > in *every* statement and readability would not suffer that much...
> 
> You've got to be kidding.

I'm pretty serious.

	ifu (a==b) {
		something();
	}

looks better than 

	if (unlikely(a==b)) {
		something();
	}

sched.c alone probably would get more readable as a result of such
conversion...

[Okay, having it at every statement is prbably bad idea.]
								Pavel
-- 
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-10 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-07  6:42 Mitchell Blank Jr
2003-09-07 22:13 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-10 14:20   ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-10 14:23     ` Dave Jones
2003-09-10 15:29       ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2003-09-10 16:07         ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-10 18:31           ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-10 18:58             ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-10 19:02               ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-10 20:12               ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-10 20:32                 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-10 21:27                   ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-10 21:52                     ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-10 21:46                   ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-12  5:12     ` Mitchell Blank Jr

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