Re: [timers] net/core/*

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 09:05:06PM +0200, kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> It is consequence of too careful reading intel and alpha programmer's
> guides. 8) All of them require to help static branch prediction
> and not to jump forward in the most frequent path. It looks silly, when done
> in C, but gcc has no means to do this in different way.

gcc 3.0 will fix this, with -freorder-blocks (which knows some common
heuristics like == NULL is usually not taken already) and __builtin_expect() 

it'll allow exorcise of about a zillion gotos from the kernel tree.

-Andi