[PATCH 4/5] sched_fair.c: remove branch hint

From: Tim Blechmann
Date: Tue Nov 24 2009 - 06:11:09 EST


branch hint profiling of my nehalem machine, showed 90% incorrect
branch hints:

15728471 158903754 90 pick_next_task_fair sched_fair.c
1555

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

diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index e5945df..5a0965c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -1552,7 +1552,7 @@ static struct task_struct
*pick_next_task_fair(struct rq *rq)
struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = &rq->cfs;
struct sched_entity *se;
- if (unlikely(!cfs_rq->nr_running))
+ if (!cfs_rq->nr_running)
return NULL;
do {
--
1.6.4.2


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