Re: [PATCH] mutex: Remove ww_ctx unlikely() from __mutex_lock_common()

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:42:52 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 08:54:41AM -0500, Steven Rostedt (VMware) wrote:
> > I added a comment stating that the branch should be unlikely, but due
> > to the intel drm logic, it currently isn't. Then if drm changes in the
> > future, we could then try it again.  
> 
> I really don't see the point here. The unlikely() also conveys this is
> not a fast path branch and that is still true, regardsless of what
> runtime does.

Fair enough.

> 
> Also, the patch wouldn't apply even if I were so inclined.

Probably because I created it against the ancient 4.9-rc7 kernel ;-)

-- Steve