[patch 5/9] blk: branch hints

[Nick Piggin]

5/9

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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
Sprinkle around a few branch hints in the block layer.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c	2005-04-12 22:26:13.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c	2005-04-12 22:26:13.000000000 +1000
@@ -1450,7 +1450,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_remove_plug);
  */
 void __generic_unplug_device(request_queue_t *q)
 {
-	if (test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_STOPPED, &q->queue_flags))
+	if (unlikely(test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_STOPPED, &q->queue_flags)))
 		return;
 
 	if (!blk_remove_plug(q))
@@ -1749,7 +1749,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_init_queue);
 
 int blk_get_queue(request_queue_t *q)
 {
-	if (!test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD, &q->queue_flags)) {
+	if (likely(!test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD, &q->queue_flags))) {
 		atomic_inc(&q->refcnt);
 		return 0;
 	}
@@ -2577,7 +2577,7 @@ static int __make_request(request_queue_
 	spin_lock_prefetch(q->queue_lock);
 
 	barrier = bio_barrier(bio);
-	if (barrier && (q->ordered == QUEUE_ORDERED_NONE)) {
+	if (unlikely(barrier) && (q->ordered == QUEUE_ORDERED_NONE)) {
 		err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
 		goto end_io;
 	}
@@ -2678,7 +2678,7 @@ get_rq:
 	/*
 	 * REQ_BARRIER implies no merging, but lets make it explicit
 	 */
-	if (barrier)
+	if (unlikely(barrier))
 		req->flags |= (REQ_HARDBARRIER | REQ_NOMERGE);
 
 	req->errors = 0;
@@ -2802,7 +2802,7 @@ static inline void block_wait_queue_runn
 {
 	DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
 
-	while (test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_DRAIN, &q->queue_flags)) {
+	while (unlikely(test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_DRAIN, &q->queue_flags))) {
 		struct request_list *rl = &q->rq;
 
 		prepare_to_wait_exclusive(&rl->drain, &wait,
@@ -2911,7 +2911,7 @@ end_io:
 			goto end_io;
 		}
 
-		if (test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD, &q->queue_flags))
+		if (unlikely(test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD, &q->queue_flags)))
 			goto end_io;
 
 		block_wait_queue_running(q);