From 710390d90f143a9ebb87a475215140f426792efd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:55:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] sched: Optimize branch hint in context_switch()
Branch hint profiling on my nehalem machine showed over 90%
incorrect branch hints:
10420275 170645395 94 context_switch sched.c
3043
10408421 171098521 94 context_switch sched.c
3050
Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0BBB9F.6080304@klingt.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
kernel/sched.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 93474a7935ae4..010d5e16b4c5e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -2829,14 +2829,14 @@ context_switch(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev,
*/
arch_start_context_switch(prev);
- if (unlikely(!mm)) {
+ if (likely(!mm)) {
next->active_mm = oldmm;
atomic_inc(&oldmm->mm_count);
enter_lazy_tlb(oldmm, next);
} else
switch_mm(oldmm, mm, next);
- if (unlikely(!prev->mm)) {
+ if (likely(!prev->mm)) {
prev->active_mm = NULL;
rq->prev_mm = oldmm;
}
--
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