From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:16:35 -0700
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:46:49 -0700 (PDT) > "David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:01:49 -0700 > > > > > > # Hit # miss Function:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ! 0 50505 tcp_transmit_skb():net/ipv4/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ... > > > How about just taking off the likely/unlikely in this case. > > > > Why remove it when we'll now get a 50505 to 0 hit rate? > > Depends on the data stream, but I guess if we are seeing high loss > we really don't care about the CPU branch prediction. I disagree, this is a hard error condition, and happens only when af_ops->queue_xmit() cannot send the packet successfully. Under any normal circumstances whatsoever, it will succeed. Are you actually looking at the right piece of code? :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
