Re: [PATCH 4/4] staging: lustre: obdclass: change object lookup to no wait mode

[Dan Carpenter]

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 04:02:55PM +0100, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > >  	/*
> > >  	 * Allocate new object. This may result in rather complicated
> > >  	 * operations, including fld queries, inode loading, etc.
> > >  	 */
> > >  	o = lu_object_alloc(env, dev, f, conf);
> > > -	if (IS_ERR(o))
> > > +	if (unlikely(IS_ERR(o)))
> > >  		return o;
> > >  
> > 
> > This is an unrelated and totally pointless.  likely/unlikely annotations
> > hurt readability, and they should only be added if it's something which
> > is going to show up in benchmarking.  lu_object_alloc() is already too
> > slow for the unlikely() to make a difference and anyway IS_ERR() has an
> > unlikely built in so it's duplicative...
> 
> Sounds like a good checkpatch case to test for :-)

The likely/unlikely annotations have their place in fast paths so a
checkpatch warning would get annoying...

regards,
dan carpenter