Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] paravirt/locks: use new static key for controlling call of virt_spin_lock()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 11:49:49AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> >  #define virt_spin_lock virt_spin_lock
> >  static inline bool virt_spin_lock(struct qspinlock *lock)
> >  {
> > +	if (!static_branch_likely(&virt_spin_lock_key))
> > +		return false;
> >  	if (!static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR))
> >  		return false;
> >  

Now native has two NOPs instead of one. Can't we merge these two static
branches?