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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mempool: add unlikely and likely hints
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 02:10:58 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1403070210080.31668@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1403061713300.928@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com>

On Thu, 6 Mar 2014, Mikulas Patocka wrote:

> This patch adds unlikely and likely hints to the function mempool_free. It
> lays out the code in such a way that the common path is executed
> straighforward and saves a cache line.
> 

What observable performance benefit have you seen with this patch and 
with what architecture?  Could we include some data in the changelog?

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-07 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-06 22:15 Mikulas Patocka
2014-03-07 10:10 ` David Rientjes [this message]
2014-03-07 14:50   ` Mikulas Patocka
2014-03-07 20:54     ` David Rientjes
2014-03-07 21:15       ` Mikulas Patocka

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