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From: Craig Christophel <merlin@transgeek.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Subject: Re: likely/unlikely
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 01:32:30 -0500
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> likely/unlikely set the branch prediction values to 99% or 1%


	So all of the BUG() routines in the kernel would benifit greatly from this.



Craig.
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