Re: [PATCH v4 22/35] net/intel: mark mid-burst ring cleanup as unlikely

Burakov, Anatoly
2026-02-10T13:37:07Z

On 2/9/2026 5:45 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> It should rarely be the case that we need to cleanup the descriptor ring
> mid-burst, so mark as unlikely to help performance.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---

Does it measurably help performance? I'm by no means a performance
person so this isn't really my wheelhouse, but I remember enough patches
removing "unlikely() for performance reasons" to get suspicious!

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Thanks,
Anatoly