Branch profiling on my nehalem machine showed 99% incorrect branch hints:
   28459  
7678524  99 __cache_alloc_node             slab.c               3551
Discussion on lkml [1] led to the solution to remove this hint.
[1] http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/63517/
Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
        cache_alloc_debugcheck_before(cachep, flags);
        local_irq_save(save_flags);
 
-       if (unlikely(nodeid == -1))
+       if (nodeid == -1)
                nodeid = numa_node_id();
 
        if (unlikely(!cachep->nodelists[nodeid])) {