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Subject[PATCH 1/5] process_64: remove branch hint
branch hint profiling of my nehalem machine, showed 96% incorrect branch
hints:

6548732 174664120 96 __switch_to process_64.c
406
6548745 174565593 96 __switch_to process_64.c
410

Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
---
arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
index c8d0ece..1e2e1fe 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -403,11 +403,11 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct
task_struct *next_p)
* This won't pick up thread selector changes, but I guess that is ok.
*/
savesegment(es, prev->es);
- if (unlikely(next->es | prev->es))
+ if (next->es | prev->es)
loadsegment(es, next->es);
savesegment(ds, prev->ds);
- if (unlikely(next->ds | prev->ds))
+ if (next->ds | prev->ds)
loadsegment(ds, next->ds);
-- 1.6.4.2

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