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Date:	Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:11:21 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	ddaney.cavm@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] jump label: introduce very_[un]likely + cleanups
 + docs

On 02/22/2012 06:56 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
>> maybe even a "very_likely()", but then keep a static_branch() 
>> or whatever for those cases you do not want to optimize at 
>> compile time.
> 
> Once such uses arise maybe we could add such an 'unbiased' 
> variant.
> 

We already have such use cases, although a lot of them are covered by
static_cpu_has().  However,  I fully expect that we'll have cases that
aren't readily covered by CPU feature flags and I'd like to avoid
reinventing new features.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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