Corentin Chary wrote:
> Hi,
> I was working on merging VNC updates into bigger ones to see if it
> lower the overhead (big updates sometime use less network/cpu than a
> lot of small updates).
> For that, I needed some new bitmap functions, and no we got, in vnc.c:
> - set_bit
> - clear_bit
> - set_bits
> - clear_bits
> - find_next_bit
> - find_next_zero_bit
> - find_next_zero_area
> 
> Should we move that into bitmap.c/bitmap.h ?
Definitely! For my NUMA work I have also coded some bitmap functions.
Since mine are not performance critical, I reverted from implementing 
set_bits and clear_bits and replaced them with a loop in the calling 
code. So I could just could come around with a macro only 
implementation, for which a header file suffices (attached for reference).

> Which part of QEMU could
> use that (block.c maybe ?)
As mentioned, the yet to be submitted NUMA code would benefit from it. 
Linux has also bitmap code, maybe you could leverage this (if not 
already done).

Regards,
Andre.

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