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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:29:36 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: Craig Christophel <merlin@transgeek.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: likely/unlikely
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On Wed, Jan 16 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Craig Christophel wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> 
> 
> It's likely :)  I would put one unlikely() in the definition of BUG_ON,
> rather rather touching all the code that calls BUG(), though.

BUG_ON has had unlikely since the very beginning :-)

-- 
Jens Axboe

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