linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 02/10] mm: Remove likely() from mapping

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Date:	Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:06:35 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 02/10] mm: Remove likely() from
 mapping_unevictable()

On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 18:02 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 09:22:13PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> I think so. We don't have good guidelines or empirical numbers on this,
> unfortunately, but I think it would be somewhere over 90%, given that it
> tends to add jumps to and from out of line icache in the incorrect case.

OK, so I'll add the removal of the unlikely() in page_mapping in my next
verison.

> 
> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>

Thanks!

-- Steve



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