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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Geert Uytterhoeven' <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>,
	Chandan Babu R <chandanrlinux@gmail.com>,
	"Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
	"Allison Henderson" <allison.henderson@oracle.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	"linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-Next <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"noreply@ellerman.id.au" <noreply@ellerman.id.au>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] xfs: Fix 64-bit division on 32-bit in xlog_state_switch_iclogs()
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 08:18:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7478840c18fc45379697609757c6c747@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdWp3E3QDnbGDcTZsCiQNP3pLV2nXVmtOD7OEQO8P-9egQ@mail.gmail.com>

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
> Sent: 11 June 2021 07:55
> Hi Dave,
> 
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 12:02 AM Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 01:00:01PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
...
> > 64 bit division on 32 bit platforms is still a problem in this day
> > and age?
> 
> They're not a problem.  But you should use the right operations from
> <linux/math64.h>, iff you really need these expensive operations.

(64bit) division isn't exactly cheap on 64bit cpus.

Some timing tables for x86 give latencies of well over 1 bit/clock
for Intel cpus, AMD ryzen manage 2 bits/clock.
Signed divide is also significantly more expensive than
unsigned divide.

Integer divide performance is clearly not important enough
to throw silicon at.
The same tables show fdiv having a latency of 16 clocks.

	David

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-14  8:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-10 11:00 [PATCH] xfs: Fix 64-bit division on 32-bit in xlog_state_switch_iclogs() Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-06-10 22:01 ` Dave Chinner
2021-06-10 22:50   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-06-11  6:55   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-06-11 22:46     ` Dave Chinner
2021-06-12  8:54       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-06-14  8:18     ` David Laight [this message]

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