> > I fail to see how replacing incrementation with a branch statement helps > performance or even not making it worse... It may have been coincidental in my setup - I had assumed the test on the local io_stat was cheaper than the cost of following hctx to then increment (or not) poll_invoked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html