From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: why unlikely(rsv) in ext3_clear_inode()?
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:13:40 -0400
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:32:11PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Attached is a patch that I used for counting.
> 
> Here's my results:
> # cat /debug/tracing/ftrace_null 
> 45
> # cat /debug/tracing/ftrace_nonnull 
> 7
> 
> Ah, seems that there is cases where it is nonnull more often. Anyway, it 
> obviously is not a fast path (total of 52). Even if it was all null, it is 
> not big enough to call for the confusion.

Silly question --- what was your test workload?

							- Ted