Re: [PATCH 00/24] staging: ccree: more cleanup patches

[Dan Carpenter]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 11:33:20AM +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 8:33 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > These cleanups look nice.  Thanks.
> >
> > I hope you do a mass remove of likely/unlikely in a patch soon.
> > Whenever, I see one of those in a + line I always have to remind myself
> > that you're planning to do it in a later patch.
> >
> 
> So, a question about that - there indeed seems to be an inflation of
> likely/unlikely in the ccree driver, but
> what stopped me from removing them was that I found out I don't have a
> clue about when it's a good idea
> to use them and when it isn't (obviously in places where you know the
> probable code flow of course).
> 
> Any hints?

They should only be included if benchmarking shows that it makes a
difference.  I think they need to be about 100 right predictions to 1
wrong prediction on a fast path.  So remove them all and add them back
one at a time.


regards,
dan carpenter