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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/10] jump label: introduce very_[un]likely + cleanups + docs

* Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 09:18:55AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > The problem with static_branch_def_false/def_true was that the
> > very intuitively visible bias that we see with
> > likely()/unlikely() is confused in jump label constructs through
> > two layers of modifiers. And the fix is so easy, a simple rename
> > in most cases ;-)
> >
> > So instead of that, in this series we have:
> >
> > + if (very_unlikely(&perf_sched_events.key))
> >
> > which is a heck of an improvement IMO. I'd still up its
> > readability a notch, by also signalling the overhead of the
> > update path by making it:
> >
> > + if (very_unlikely(&perf_sched_events.slow_flag))
> >
> > ... but I don't want to be that much of a readability nazi ;-)
>
> I have to say I don't like the "very_unlikely" name. It's
> confusing because the condition being evaluated appears to be
> the address of something, i.e. &perf_sched_events.key in your
> example, and that looks to me to be very very likely to be
> true, i.e. non-zero. But the code is telling me that's very
> *un*likely, which is confusing.

Having to take the address gives us type safety - i.e. it will
not be possible to accidentally pass in a non-jump-label key and
get it misinterpreted.

If some macro magic could be used to remove the address taking
I'd be in favor of such a simplification, i.e.:

if (very_unlikely(perf_sched_events.key))

which should address your observation.

Thanks,

Ingo


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