Re: [PATCH] skb_{over,under}_panic optimizations

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:37:03AM +0200, Ben LaHaise wrote:
> Hello Dave & all,
> 
> Below is a patch that moves the skb_{over,under}_panic function calls in
> skb_put and skb_push out of line on i386 and hopefully improves register
> allocation.  If this turns out to be useful, there are bunch of other
> places we can move these kinds useful debugging assertions out of line.
> Comments?

How ugly. Does this really make any benchmarkable difference?
(very much doubting it)

If you really care about such microoptimization just use __builtin_expect.



-Andi