Re: if stmt in kernel source

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Venkateswarlu P <p.venkatesh551@gmail.com> wrote:

explain about  likely    and  unlikely        constructs        used in if stmt

AFAIK, it is a hint to the compiler if the condition of conditional statement is likely to be true or not for code optimization with branch predictor.