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Date:	Tue,  3 Jul 2012 11:40:35 -0400
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] xen/p2m: Optimize the get_phys_to_machine function a bit.

Running perf tells me that the check for p2m_identity
is done a lot - more than it should.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
---
 arch/x86/xen/p2m.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c b/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c
index 64effdc..161bcdc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ unsigned long get_phys_to_machine(unsigned long pfn)
 	 * and in p2m_*missing, so returning the INVALID_P2M_ENTRY
 	 * would be wrong.
 	 */
-	if (p2m_top[topidx][mididx] == p2m_identity)
+	if (unlikely(p2m_top[topidx][mididx] == p2m_identity))
 		return IDENTITY_FRAME(pfn);
 
 	return p2m_top[topidx][mididx][idx];
-- 
1.7.7.6

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