linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] erofs: remove all likely/unlikely annotations

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Message-ID: <20190831105732.GH8372@kadam>
Date:   Sat, 31 Aug 2019 13:57:32 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org, Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>,
        Miao Xie <miaoxie@...wei.com>, weidu.du@...wei.com,
        Fang Wei <fangwei1@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] erofs: remove all likely/unlikely annotations

On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 12:04:20AM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> I don't have some benchmark data for each unlikely/likely case (and I have
> no idea "is that worth to take time to benchmark rather than do another more
> useful stuffs"), so..I have to kill them all...

We don't really require benchmarks, just that a reasonable person would
think it might make a difference.

regards,
dan carpenter