This is another result from my likely profiling tool
(dwalker@mvista.com just sent the patch of the profiling tool to
linux-kernel mailing list, which is similar to what I use).
On my system (not very busy, normal development machine within a
VMWare workstation), I see a 6/5 miss/hit ratio for this "likely".
Signed-off-by: Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Initialise the virtual path cache for the packet. It describes
* how the packet travels inside Linux networking.
*/
- if (likely(skb->dst == NULL)) {
+ if (skb->dst == NULL) {
int err = ip_route_input(skb, iph->daddr, iph->saddr, iph->tos,
skb->dev);
if (unlikely(err)) {