On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 06:23:11AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 06:22:13AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 12:02:30PM +0200, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > > > virtio-blk: remove unneeded "likely" statements > > > > > > to the 5.14-stable tree which can be found at: > > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > > > > > The filename of the patch is: > > > virtio-blk-remove-unneeded-likely-statements.patch > > > and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory. > > > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > > > > > > > > > >From 6105d1fe6f4c24ce8c13e2e6568b16b76e04983d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > > From: Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2021 11:57:17 +0300 > > > Subject: virtio-blk: remove unneeded "likely" statements > > > > > > From: Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > commit 6105d1fe6f4c24ce8c13e2e6568b16b76e04983d upstream. > > > > > > Usually we use "likely/unlikely" to optimize the fast path. Remove > > > redundant "likely/unlikely" statements in the control path to simplify > > > the code and make it easier to read. > > > > > > Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210905085717.7427-1-mgurtovoy@xxxxxxxxxx > > > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <ckulkarnilinux@xxxxxxxxx> > > > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > > > Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > It's harmless but doesn't seem appropriate for stable. > > Oh, I guess it's been picked because the next patch that > was picked depends on it. OK then, sorry about the noise. Yeah, that's why I grabbed it :) thanks, greg k-h
