Craig Christophel wrote:
>
> > likely/unlikely set the branch prediction values to 99% or 1%
>
> So all of the BUG() routines in the kernel would benifit greatly from this.
It's likely :) I would put one unlikely() in the definition of BUG_ON,
rather rather touching all the code that calls BUG(), though.
Jeff
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