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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: avoid bogus warning in tcp_clean_rtx_queue
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:01:46 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 23:32:33 +0200

> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:02 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>> What cpu did you test the object code generation upon and does that
>> cpu have branch prediction hints in the target you are building for?
> 
> This was a randconfig build targetting ARMv5. I'm pretty sure that has
> no such hint instructions.

I just tested on sparc64 and it changed the branch prediction:

 .L2157:
-       brz,pn  %i3, .L1898     ! first_ackt,
+       brz,pt  %i2, .L1898     ! first_ackt,
         mov    -1, %o2 !, seq_rtt_us