Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:06:32 -0700 | From | Daniel Walker <> | Subject | [PATCH] invert irq/migration.c brach prediction |
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If you get to that point in the code it means that desc->move_irq is set, pending_irq_cpumask[irq] and cpu_online_map should have a value. Still pretty good chance anding those two you'll still have a value. So these two branch predictors should be inverted .
Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Index: linux-2.6.16/kernel/irq/migration.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.16.orig/kernel/irq/migration.c +++ linux-2.6.16/kernel/irq/migration.c @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ void move_native_irq(int irq) desc->move_irq = 0; - if (likely(cpus_empty(pending_irq_cpumask[irq]))) + if (unlikely(cpus_empty(pending_irq_cpumask[irq]))) return; if (!desc->handler->set_affinity) @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ void move_native_irq(int irq) * cause some ioapics to mal-function. * Being paranoid i guess! */ - if (unlikely(!cpus_empty(tmp))) { + if (likely(!cpus_empty(tmp))) { if (likely(!(desc->status & IRQ_DISABLED))) desc->handler->disable(irq); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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