Re: [PATCH] Scheduler Profiling - Use Immediate Values

Andi Kleen
2007-09-12T14:32:33Z

> The idea is not to hide the unlikely, but to leave the opportunity to
> make this primitive evolve in something that won't depend on a load
> immediate and only require patching of a jump, given the appropriate gcc
> support (yet to come).

If that ever happens the code can be still changed. But i don't think
it's a good idea to uglify the code for something that if it
ever exists will be a long time away.

Besides if gcc supports it I assume the gcc support could
also be written in a way that makes it possible to hide it inside
a standard if ()

-Andi