From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 13:31:26 +0000 (-0400) Subject: x86-64: Don't generate cmov in vread_tsc X-Git-Tag: v3.0-rc1~128^2~6 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3729db5ca2b2000c660e5a5d0eb68b1053212cab;p=pandora-kernel.git x86-64: Don't generate cmov in vread_tsc vread_tsc checks whether rdtsc returns something less than cycle_last, which is an extremely predictable branch. GCC likes to generate a cmov anyway, which is several cycles slower than a predicted branch. This saves a couple of nanoseconds. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Borislav Petkov Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C561280649519de41352fcb620684dfb22bad6bac.1306156808.git.luto%40mit.edu%3E Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- Reading git-diff-tree failed