Re: [PATCH 00/10] jump label: introduce very_[un]likely + cleanups+ docs

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/21/2012 12:02 PM, Jason Baron wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Renames 'static_branch()' -> very_unlikely(), hopefully, to be more intuitive
> as to what jump labels is about. I'm also introducing 'very_likely()', as
> the analogue to very_unlikely(). Patch is against the -tip perf branch.
> 

Erk... I'm not happy about this.  very_unlikely() makes it sound like it
operates like unlikely(), which really is not the case.  There is a huge
difference in mechanism here as well as usage.

	-hpa

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