With COW files they are the hotpath, just like for files with the extent size hint attribute. We really shouldn't micro-manage anything but failure cases with unlikely. Additionally Arnd Bergmann recently reported that one of these two unlikely annotations causes link failures together with an upcoming kernel instrumentation patch, so let's get rid of it ASAP. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c index ab82dd4..bfc00de 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c @@ -3629,7 +3629,7 @@ xfs_bmap_btalloc( align = xfs_get_cowextsz_hint(ap->ip); else if (xfs_alloc_is_userdata(ap->datatype)) align = xfs_get_extsz_hint(ap->ip); - if (unlikely(align)) { + if (align) { error = xfs_bmap_extsize_align(mp, &ap->got, &ap->prev, align, 0, ap->eof, 0, ap->conv, &ap->offset, &ap->length); @@ -3701,7 +3701,7 @@ xfs_bmap_btalloc( args.minlen = ap->minlen; } /* apply extent size hints if obtained earlier */ - if (unlikely(align)) { + if (align) { args.prod = align; if ((args.mod = (xfs_extlen_t)do_mod(ap->offset, args.prod))) args.mod = (xfs_extlen_t)(args.prod - args.mod); -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html