Message-ID: <1329916920.25686.79.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] jump label: introduce very_[un]likely + cleanups
 + docs
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>,
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        davem@davemloft.net, ddaney.cavm@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:22:00 -0500
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I like the blue shed, but anyway...

On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 09:06 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> 
> > Not arguing that, but the static aspect is still key... or 
> > people will read it as another version of likely/unlikely.  
> 
> They can *read* it as such, that as is very much intentional! 

I mentioned this thread on irc and the first comment I received was:

"is that a new attempt at trying to guide the compiler?"

I personally find the very_unlikely() confusing, but then again I like
the blue shed over the pink one.

-- Steve


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