Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:29:36 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: likely/unlikely |
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On Wed, Jan 16 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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.
BUG_ON has had unlikely since the very beginning :-)
-- Jens Axboe
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