Re: [RFC][PATCH] Introduce CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE

[Nicholas Miell]

On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 23:14 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> it's on x86.. likely/unlikely don't impact the CPU (since there are no
> "ignore the branch predictor" hints), only the code placement.....

But code placement does affect branch prediction (e.g. the Pentium 4
static predictor assumes backward branches are taken, recent AMD
processors prefer you to arrange code such that conditional branches are
not taken, etc.)

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Nicholas Miell <nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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