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SubjectRe: [PATCH 04/20] Convert gfp_zone() to use a table of precalculated value
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:

> I was concerned with mispredictions here rather than the actual assembly
> and gfp_zone is inlined so it's lot of branches introduced in a lot of paths.

The amount of speculation that can be done by the processor pretty
limited to a few instructions. So the impact of a misprediction also
should be minimal. The decoder is likely to have sucked in the following
code anyways.



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