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Message-Id: <200705281551.05506.dhazelton@enter.net>
Date:	Mon, 28 May 2007 15:51:05 -0400
From:	Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910@...il.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm-cc@...top.org,
	linuxcompressed-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Richard Purdie <richard@...nedhand.com>,
	Bret Towe <magnade@...il.com>,
	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] LZO de/compression support - take 6

On Monday 28 May 2007 13:01:09 Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:55:14AM -0400, Daniel Hazelton wrote:
> >...
> > This is my guess as well. Though performance will likely drop when I make
> > the noinline macro mean something. (This may be offset by figuring out a
> > way to make likely() and unlikely() also have a meaningful effect in
> > userspace). ...
>
> What is your problem?
>
> The likely/unlikely macros aren't in any way depending on any kernel
> infrastructure.

That I'm just plain lazy and haven't felt like pulling them out of the kernel 
sources ?

Actually, that is the case - and I wasn't exactly sure that likely() and 
unlikely() were completely decoupled from the kernel's infrastructure.

DRH

> > DRH
>
> cu
> Adrian


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