Re: aio is unlikely

[Jeff Garzik]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Yes, if you agree with Jeff's original point.
>
> But I don't, actually.  Sure, on some machines+workloads, AIO is more
> common than sync IO.  But I expect that when we sum across all the
> machines+workloads in the world, sync IO is more common and is hence the
> case we should optimise for.
>
> That's assuming that the unlikely() actually does something.


For the record, I agreed with your counter-point, and retract[ed?] my 
disagreement...

	Jeff


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