Andi Kleen wrote: > - it doesn't seem to help that much on modern CPUs with good > branch prediction and big icaches anyways.
Really? I would think that as pipelines get deeper (although that trend seems to have stopped, thankfully) and Icache-miss penalties get relatively larger we'd see unlikely() becoming MORE of a benefit, not less. Storing the used part of a "hot" function in 1 Icacheline instead of 4 seems like an obvious win. Personally I've never found unlikely() to be ugly; if anything I think it serves as a nice little human-readable comment about whats going on in the control-flow. I guess I'm in the minority on that one, though. -Mitch - 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/
