On Montag 12 November 2007 08:54:52, you (Adrian Bunk) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 11:04:41PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > Why? Anyway I think this is the case. The body of the then branch is > > executed at > > most once, while the else branch each time but last. If you write/read 1002 > > bytes, it means 250:1. ...and it's invoked from interrupt too... > > AFAIK there is no well defined semantics whether likely/unlikely means > 10:1 or 10000:1 that is guaranteed to not change during the next > 10 years. > > Unless there's a measurable difference, it's best to write readable > C code and simply leave all optimizations to the compiler.
>From my (totally) beginners point of view i would have guessed a chance of very well below one percent that this condition is true could be called "unlikely", but i have to admit this is most probably a much too naive way of thinking, especially in regards of compiler optimizations. And in this special case now there are already most calls (about 80 percent) caught by the switch-case-shortcuts anyway. So, i'll revert it. Thanks a lot for your feedback, Frank - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
