Re: [RFC][PATCH 01/10] sched: Change rt_task(prev) in pre_schedule_rt to likely

Steven Rostedt
2010-12-07T03:32:53Z

On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 11:25 +0800, Yong Zhang wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
> >
> > As found with the branch annotation profiler, the unlikely(rt_task(prev))
> > in pre_schedule_rt() is always wrong. In fact it should be likely due to
> > the fact that we got to this function because we used prev's scheduling
> > class (which had to be rt).
> >
> > Change the unlikely(rt_task(prev)) to likely(rt_task(prev))
>
> I have sent a more radical patch before but it get ignored.
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126572702600950&w=2

I like yours better. I'll add that one to my queue instead.

Thanks,

-- Steve