Re: [Linux-nvdimm] [PATCH 4/6] SQUSHME: pmem: Micro cleaning
From: Dan Williams
Date: Tue Mar 31 2015 - 11:18:04 EST
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 6:27 AM, Boaz Harrosh <boaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Some error checks had unlikely some did not. Put unlikely
> on all error handling paths.
> (I like unlikely for error paths specially for readability)
"unlikely()" is not a readability hint, it's specifically for branches
that profiling shows adding it makes a difference. Just delete them
all until profiling show they make a difference. They certainly don't
make a difference in the slow paths.
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