Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: tracking shared dirty pages

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On Thu, 25 May 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 09:21 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 May 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 
> > > @@ -1446,12 +1447,13 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *
> > >  
> > > -	if (unlikely(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) {
> > > +	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) {
> > 
> > You add this unlikely later again it seems. Why remove in the first place?
> 
> I'm not sure I follow you, are you suggesting that we'll find the
> condition to be unlikely still, even with most of the shared mappings
> trapping this branch?

No, I just saw the opposite in a later patch. It was the -1 patch that 
does

+       if (unlikely(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) {

but thats a different context?
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