Re: likely/unlikely

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Wed, 16 Jan 2002 04:14:57 -0500

Craig Christophel wrote:
>
> > likely/unlikely set the branch prediction values to 99% or 1%
>
> So all of the BUG() routines in the kernel would benifit greatly from this.

It's likely :) I would put one unlikely() in the definition of BUG_ON,
rather rather touching all the code that calls BUG(), though.

Jeff

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