Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:50:06 -0500 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mutex: Remove ww_ctx unlikely() from __mutex_lock_common() |
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:42:52 +0100 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 08:54:41AM -0500, Steven Rostedt (VMware) wrote: > > I added a comment stating that the branch should be unlikely, but due > > to the intel drm logic, it currently isn't. Then if drm changes in the > > future, we could then try it again. > > I really don't see the point here. The unlikely() also conveys this is > not a fast path branch and that is still true, regardsless of what > runtime does.
Fair enough.
> > Also, the patch wouldn't apply even if I were so inclined.
Probably because I created it against the ancient 4.9-rc7 kernel ;-)
-- Steve
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