Re: Should we be using unlikely() around tests of GFP_ZERO?

[Minchan Kim]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Given the patches being busily submitted by trivial patch submitters to
> make use kmem_cache_zalloc(), et. al, I believe we should remove the
> unlikely() tests around the (gfp_flags & __GFP_ZERO) tests, such as:
>
> -       if (unlikely((flags & __GFP_ZERO) && objp))
> +       if ((flags & __GFP_ZERO) && objp)
>                memset(objp, 0, obj_size(cachep));
>
> Agreed?  If so, I'll send a patch...

I support it.

Recently Steven tried to gather the information.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1072767
Maybe he might have a number for that.


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