On Tue 2017-11-28 08:22:50, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 07:05:22PM -0500, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 25 Nov 2017, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 02:00:45PM -0500, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > > A small patch for schedule(), so that the code goes straght in the > > > > common > > > > case. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]> > > > > > > Was this a measurable difference? If so, great, please provide the > > > numbers and how you tested in the changelog. If it can't be measured, > > > then it is not worth it to add these markings > > > > It is much easier to make microoptimizations (such as using likely() and > > unlikely()) than to measure their effect. > > > > If a programmer were required to measure performance every time he uses > > likely() or unlikely() in his code, he wouldn't use them at all. > > If you can not measure it, you should not use it. You are forgetting > about the testing that was done a few years ago that found that some > huge percentage (80? 75? 90?) of all of these markings were wrong and > harmful or did absolutely nothing.
If Mikulas has enough data that particular if() is usually taken or
not, that should be enough.
Pavel
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