linux-kernel - [PATCH] branch profiling on my nehalem machine showed 99% incorrect branch hints:

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Message-ID: <4B140806.9000308@klingt.org>
Date:	Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:59:34 +0100
From:	Tim Blechmann <tim@...ngt.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
CC:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: [PATCH] branch profiling on my nehalem machine showed 99% incorrect
 branch hints:

i have regenerated the patch for tip/tip ...

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   28459  7678524  99 __cache_alloc_node             slab.c               3551

Discussion on lkml [1] led to the solution to remove this hint.

[1] http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/63517/

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



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