* Brian Gerst <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 11:01:02AM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
> >> The idea was to put the uncommon case (kernel thread) out of line for
> >> performance reasons.
> >
> > A comment saying so wouldn't hurt...
>
> This is a fairly common pattern. Do we have to document every case of it?
Yeah, would be good to do that in general, so that people can re-evaluate
whether
'this is rare' is still true years down the line. For newly touched code it
makes
sense to add a minimal comment that explains what is rare about the branch and
so.
Thanks,
Ingo
