linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/10] jump label: introduce very

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <4F43F9F0.4000605@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:09:20 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
CC:	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, mingo@...e.hu, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	ddaney.cavm@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] jump label: introduce very_[un]likely + cleanups
 + docs

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

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/