linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/8] staging: erofs: add error handling for xattr submodule

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Date:   Mon, 13 Aug 2018 20:46:44 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>
To:     Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>, linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] staging: erofs: add error handling for xattr
 submodule

On 2018/8/13 20:17, Gao Xiang wrote:
>> Generally the rule on likely/unlikely is that they hurt readability so
>> we should only add them if it makes a difference in benchmarking.
>>
> 
> In my opinion, return values other than 0 and ENOATTR(ENODATA) rarely happens,
> it should be in the slow path...

Hi Dan, thanks for the comments.

IMO, we should check and clean up all likely/unlikely in erofs, to make sure
they are used in the right place.

Thanks,