Re: [PATCH] speed up on find_first_bit for i386 (let compiler do the work)

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 17:34 +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>  Since you're considering GCC-generated code for ffs(), ffz() and friends, 
> how about trying __builtin_ffs(), __builtin_clz() and __builtin_ctz() as 
> apropriate?  Reasonably recent GCC may actually be good enough to use the 
> fastest code depending on the processor submodel selected.

I can change the find_first_bit to use __builtin_ffs, but how would you
implement the ffz?  The clz and ctz only count the number of leading or
trailing zeros respectively, it doesn't find the first zero. Of course a
__builtin_ctz(~x) would but this might take longer than what we already
have.  I'll go ahead and try it and see.  But I still don't have a
decent benchmark on this. I'll start looking into the kernel and see how
it's used, and see if I can find a proper benchmark.

-- Steve