Re: [PATCH] oops_in_progress is unlikely()

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

>  > Andrew - thanks for applying my last patch; thought you might be interested
>  > in this trivial one too.  Patch is versus 2.6.0-test4-bk8, I expect it
>  > will also apply against current -mm.
> 
> 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...

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