Andi Kleen wrote: >> The performance benefit is trivial, >> > > That's actually not true when you're talking about potential cache misses. > Cache misses are very expensive. >
They are when in a tight loop, but are trivial in this case. I'll go further and say that unless the system is constantly execing, there will always be a cache miss, and that removing this code will not improve that at all. -- 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/