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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] introduce ptr_diff()
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:03:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5790.1282219392@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282217856-8625-1-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com>

Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> wrote:

> +	if (is_power_of_2(__size))				\
> +		__diff = (__addr1 - __addr2) >> ilog2(__size);	\
> +	else							\
> +		__diff = (__addr1 - __addr2) / __size;		\

You shouldn't need to do this.  The compiler's optimiser should switch a
divide to a shift for a power-of-2 divisor.

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-19 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-19 11:37 [RFC][PATCH] introduce ptr_diff() Namhyung Kim
2010-08-19 11:57 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2010-08-19 12:03 ` David Howells [this message]
2010-08-19 12:23 ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-19 12:40   ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-08-19 12:58     ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-19 12:58       ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-19 12:48   ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2010-08-19 12:48     ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2010-08-19 12:59     ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-19 13:05       ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2010-08-19 13:39         ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-20 12:12       ` Al Viro
2010-08-19 15:53   ` Namhyung Kim
2010-08-19 16:04     ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2010-08-19 16:12       ` Namhyung Kim
2010-08-20 12:07   ` Al Viro
2010-08-20 12:49     ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-08-20 12:57       ` Andi Kleen

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