Re: [PATCH] use unlikely() for current_kernel_time() loop

[Andi Kleen]

On Thursday 08 June 2006 08:41, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:
> Andi,
> 
> On Thu, 08 Jun 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > Nothing on x86-64 at least - it uses -fno-reorder-blocks by default.
> > 
> 
> Why is that?

Originally because it made assembly too unreadable. Later it was discovered
it produces smaller code too.

-Andi
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