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locking/rtmutex: Flip unlikely() branch to likely() in __rt_mutex_slo…
…wlock() Running my likely/unlikely profiler for 3 weeks on two production machines, I discovered that the unlikely() test in __rt_mutex_slowlock() checking if state is TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE is hit 100% of the time, making it a very likely case. The reason is, on a vanilla kernel, the majority case of calling rt_mutex() is from the futex code. This code is always called as TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE. In the -rt patch, this code is commonly called when PREEMPT_RT is enabled with TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. But that's not the likely scenario. The rt_mutex() code should be optimized for the common vanilla case, and that is from a futex, with TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE as the state. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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