linux-kernel - [PATCH] sched, x86: Optimize branch hint in __switch

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Message-ID: <4B126124.60902@klingt.org>
Date:	Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:55:16 +0100
From:	Tim Blechmann <tim@...ngt.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH] sched, x86: Optimize branch hint in __switch_to()


Branch hint profiling on my nehalem machine showed 89%
incorrect branch hints:

31032542 270070841  89 __switch_to                    process_64.c         440

Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@...ngt.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)



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