The patch titled aio is unlikely has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was aio-is-unlikely.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: aio is unlikely From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> Stick an unlikely() around is_aio(): I assert that most IO is synchronous. Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/aio.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN include/linux/aio.h~aio-is-unlikely include/linux/aio.h --- a/include/linux/aio.h~aio-is-unlikely +++ a/include/linux/aio.h @@ -226,7 +226,8 @@ int FASTCALL(io_submit_one(struct kioctx __put_ioctx(kioctx); \ } while (0) -#define in_aio() !is_sync_wait(current->io_wait) +#define in_aio() (unlikely(!is_sync_wait(current->io_wait))) + /* may be used for debugging */ #define warn_if_async() \ do { \ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxx are origin.patch git-ieee1394.patch update-smc91x-driver-with-arm-versatile-board-info.patch drivers-net-ns83820c-add-paramter-to-disable-auto.patch git-ioat-vs-git-md-accel.patch ioat-warning-fix.patch scsi-cover-up-bugs-fix-up-compiler-warnings-in-megaraid-driver.patch git-ipwireless_cs.patch lumpy-reclaim-v4.patch deprecate-smbfs-in-favour-of-cifs.patch sync_sb_inodes-propagate-errors.patch move-page-writeback-acounting-out-of-macros.patch ext2-reservations.patch mm-implement-swap-prefetching.patch make-copy_from_user_inatomic-not-zero-the-tail-on-i386-vs-reiser4.patch reiser4.patch nr_blockdev_pages-in_interrupt-warning.patch device-suspend-debug.patch slab-leaks3-default-y.patch vdso-print-fatal-signals-use-ctl_unnumbered.patch restore-rogue-readahead-printk.patch put_bh-debug.patch acpi_format_exception-debug.patch kmap_atomic-debugging.patch shrink_slab-handle-bad-shrinkers.patch squash-ipc-warnings.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