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

[Brian F. G. Bidulock]

Andi,

On Thu, 08 Jun 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > > Originally because it made assembly too unreadable. Later it was discovered
> > > it produces smaller code too.
> > > 

Another quick check on Intel 630.  w/o -fno-reorder-blocks: code increased 2% in
size; performance increased 2% per hyperthread; code still as readable with
objdump -S -d.  Rather marginal one way or the other.

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