From: Steven Rostedt The rt_policy() has an unlikely() that the policy it is checking is of RT priority (SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR). According to the annotate branch profiler it is incorrect most of the time: correct incorrect % Function File Line ------- --------- - -------- ---- ---- 36667 654674 94 rt_policy sched.c 126 This makes sense because the rt_policy() is used by the sched_set_scheduler() and nice(). Although users may use sys_nice a bit, all RT users use the sched_set_scheduler() to set their RT priority, including kernel threads. The above numbers were from a normal desktop computer running firefox, evolution, xchat and was part of a distcc compile farm. Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/sched.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index dc91a4d..269a045 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ static inline int rt_policy(int policy) { - if (unlikely(policy == SCHED_FIFO || policy == SCHED_RR)) + if (policy == SCHED_FIFO || policy == SCHED_RR) return 1; return 0; } -- 1.7.2.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/