On Tue, 13 Jan 2015, Pengfei Yuan wrote: > I use perf with rbf88:k,rff88:k events (Haswell specific) to profile > the taken rate of conditional branches in the kernel. Here are the > results: [...] > > The results are very strange because all the taken rates are greater > than 50%. Why not reverse the basic block reordering heuristics to > make them under 50%? Is there anything wrong with GCC?
Your measurement includes the conditional branches at the end of loop bodies. When loops iterate, those branches are taken, and it doesn't make sense to reverse them. HTH Alexander
