The patch titled remove unlikely(sb) in prune_dcache has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename is remove-unlikelysb-in-prune_dcache.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: remove unlikely(sb) in prune_dcache From: Hua Zhong <hzhong@xxxxxxxxx> likely profiling shows that the following is a miss. After boot: [+- ] Type | # True | # False | Function:Filename@Line +unlikely | 1074| 0 prune_dcache()@:fs/dcache.c@409 After a bonnie++ run: +unlikely | 66716| 19584 prune_dcache()@:fs/dcache.c@409 So remove it. Signed-off-by: Hua Zhong <hzhong@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/dcache.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/dcache.c~remove-unlikelysb-in-prune_dcache fs/dcache.c --- a/fs/dcache.c~remove-unlikelysb-in-prune_dcache +++ a/fs/dcache.c @@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ static void prune_dcache(int count, stru cond_resched_lock(&dcache_lock); tmp = dentry_unused.prev; - if (unlikely(sb)) { + if (sb) { /* Try to find a dentry for this sb, but don't try * too hard, if they aren't near the tail they will * be moved down again soon _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hzhong@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch ide-error-handling-fixes.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html