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Message-ID: <20180516080022.b4ihz7opiueobm7u@mwanda>
Date:   Wed, 16 May 2018 11:00:22 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
        Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
        Lai Siyao <lai.siyao@...el.com>,
        Jinshan Xiong <jinshan.xiong@...el.com>,
        NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lustre Development List <lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] staging: lustre: obdclass: change object lookup to
 no wait mode

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 04:02:55PM +0100, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > >  	/*
> > >  	 * Allocate new object. This may result in rather complicated
> > >  	 * operations, including fld queries, inode loading, etc.
> > >  	 */
> > >  	o = lu_object_alloc(env, dev, f, conf);
> > > -	if (IS_ERR(o))
> > > +	if (unlikely(IS_ERR(o)))
> > >  		return o;
> > >  
> > 
> > This is an unrelated and totally pointless.  likely/unlikely annotations
> > hurt readability, and they should only be added if it's something which
> > is going to show up in benchmarking.  lu_object_alloc() is already too
> > slow for the unlikely() to make a difference and anyway IS_ERR() has an
> > unlikely built in so it's duplicative...
> 
> Sounds like a good checkpatch case to test for :-)

The likely/unlikely annotations have their place in fast paths so a
checkpatch warning would get annoying...

regards,
dan carpenter

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