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sched, x86: Optimize branch hint in __switch_to()

Branch hint profiling on my nehalem machine showed 96%
incorrect branch hints:

  6548732 174664120  96 __switch_to                    process_64.c
    406
  6548745 174565593  96 __switch_to                    process_64.c
    410

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: <4B0BBB93.3080307@klingt.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tim Blechmann 15 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 3 deletions
  1. 2 3
      arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c

+ 2 - 3
arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c

@@ -406,11 +406,10 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p)
 	 * This won't pick up thread selector changes, but I guess that is ok.
 	 */
 	savesegment(es, prev->es);
-	if (unlikely(next->es | prev->es))
+	if (next->es | prev->es)
 		loadsegment(es, next->es);
-
 	savesegment(ds, prev->ds);
-	if (unlikely(next->ds | prev->ds))
+	if (next->ds | prev->ds)
 		loadsegment(ds, next->ds);