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Message-ID: <20120221211145.GA15210@Krystal>
Date:	Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:11:45 -0500
From:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, mingo@...e.hu, 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

* Steven Rostedt (rostedt@...dmis.org) wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 15:20 -0500, Jason Baron wrote:
> 
> > I'm not really too hung up on the naming, but I did think that
> > very_[un]likely were an interesting possibility.
> 
> The problem comes from what Peter said. They are too similar to
> "likely()" and "unlikely()", and can become confusing.
> 
> Maybe "static_likely()" and "static_unlikely()" as the word "static" can
> imply something strange about these. Or perhaps a "const_likely()"?

My 2 cents:

static_likely()/static_unlikely() seems to be the less strange
construct names I've seen fly so far. ;-) And they seem to convey the
semantic of static branches and branch "hint" quite well.

Thanks,

Mathieu

> 
> Maybe "dynamic_branch_true()" and "dynamic_branch_false()". This may be
> the most descriptive.
> 
> -- Steve
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com
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