On Fri, 18 May 2007 17:54:32 -0400
Phillip Susi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Yes, if you agree with Jeff's original point.
> >
> > But I don't, actually. Sure, on some machines+workloads, AIO is more
> > common than sync IO. But I expect that when we sum across all the
> > machines+workloads in the world, sync IO is more common and is hence the
> > case we should optimise for.
> >
> > That's assuming that the unlikely() actually does something.
>
> But as Jeff said, that's not what unlikely is for. It should only be
> used when it is unlikely for everybody, all the time, because when it is
> right, it helps rather little, but when it is wrong, it hurts a lot.
It does? Tell us more.
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