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DateWed, 16 Jan 2002 04:14:57 -0500
FromJeff Garzik <>
SubjectRe: likely/unlikely
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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