Commit-ID: 710390d90f143a9ebb87a475215140f426792efd Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/710390d90f143a9ebb87a475215140f426792efd Author: Tim Blechmann <tim@xxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:55:27 +0100 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> CommitDate: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:18:42 +0100 sched: Optimize branch hint in context_switch() Branch hint profiling on my nehalem machine showed over 90% incorrect branch hints: 10420275 170645395 94 context_switch sched.c 3043 10408421 171098521 94 context_switch sched.c 3050 Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> LKML-Reference: <4B0BBB9F.6080304@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 93474a7..010d5e1 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -2829,14 +2829,14 @@ context_switch(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev, */ arch_start_context_switch(prev); - if (unlikely(!mm)) { + if (likely(!mm)) { next->active_mm = oldmm; atomic_inc(&oldmm->mm_count); enter_lazy_tlb(oldmm, next); } else switch_mm(oldmm, mm, next); - if (unlikely(!prev->mm)) { + if (likely(!prev->mm)) { prev->active_mm = NULL; rq->prev_mm = oldmm; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html