[PATCH 3/5] slab.c: remove branch hint

From: Tim Blechmann
Date: Tue Nov 24 2009 - 06:11:02 EST


branch profiling on my nehalem machine showed 99% incorrect branch hints:

28459 7678524 99 __cache_alloc_node slab.c
3551

Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slab.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index f70b326..4125fcd 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -3548,7 +3548,7 @@ __cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
gfp_t flags, int nodeid,
slab_irq_save(save_flags, this_cpu);
this_node = cpu_to_node(this_cpu);
- if (unlikely(nodeid == -1))
+ if (nodeid == -1)
nodeid = this_node;
if (unlikely(!cachep->nodelists[nodeid])) {
--
1.6.4.2


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