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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
	Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>,
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	Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
	Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>,
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	sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, ultralinux@vger.kernel.org,
	Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] C-language equivalents of include/asm-*/bitops.h
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:06:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060126000618.GA5592@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060125200250.GA26443@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 08:02:50PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > +	s = 16; if (word << 16 != 0) s = 0; b += s; word >>= s;
> > +	s =  8; if (word << 24 != 0) s = 0; b += s; word >>= s;
> > +	s =  4; if (word << 28 != 0) s = 0; b += s; word >>= s;
...
> Basically, shifts which depend on a variable are more expensive than
> constant-based shifts.

Actually, they're all constant shifts.  Just written stupidly.


r~

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-26  0:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-25 11:26 [PATCH 0/6] RFC: use include/asm-generic/bitops.h Akinobu Mita
2006-01-25 11:28 ` [PATCH 1/6] {set,clear,test}_bit() related cleanup Akinobu Mita
2006-01-26 16:14   ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-26 16:47     ` Russell King
2006-01-26 19:14     ` Paul Jackson
2006-01-25 11:30 ` [PATCH 2/6] use non atomic operations for minix_*_bit() and ext2_*_bit() Akinobu Mita
2006-01-25 11:32 ` [PATCH 3/6] C-language equivalents of include/asm-*/bitops.h Akinobu Mita
2006-01-25 11:54   ` Keith Owens
2006-01-26  2:13     ` Akinobu Mita
2006-01-25 20:02   ` Russell King
2006-01-25 23:25     ` Ian Molton
2006-01-26  0:06     ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2006-01-26  4:34       ` Edgar Toernig
2006-01-26 17:30         ` Richard Henderson
2006-01-26  8:55       ` Russell King
2006-01-26 16:18         ` [parisc-linux] " Grant Grundler
2006-01-26 16:30           ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-01-26 16:40           ` Russell King
2006-01-26 23:04             ` Grant Grundler
2006-01-26 23:03               ` Russell King
2006-01-29  7:12                 ` Stuart Brady
2006-01-30  4:03                   ` David S. Miller
2006-01-30 17:06                   ` Ralf Baechle
2006-01-30 19:50                     ` Stuart Brady
2006-01-30 23:02                       ` David S. Miller
2006-01-27  0:28               ` [parisc-linux] Re: [PATCH 3/6] C-language equivalents of John David Anglin
2006-01-27 12:51   ` [PATCH 3/6] C-language equivalents of include/asm-*/bitops.h Hirokazu Takata
2006-01-30  3:29     ` Akinobu Mita
2006-01-25 11:34 ` [PATCH 5/6] fix warning on test_ti_thread_flag() Akinobu Mita
2006-01-25 12:28   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-01-25 22:28   ` Paul Mackerras
2006-01-26  0:04     ` David S. Miller
2006-01-25 11:35 ` [PATCH 6/6] remove unused generic bitops in include/linux/bitops.h Akinobu Mita
     [not found] ` <20060125113336.GE18584@miraclelinux.com>
2006-01-26  1:49   ` [PATCH 4/6] use include/asm-generic/bitops for each architecture Akinobu Mita
2006-01-27 13:04     ` Hirokazu Takata
2006-01-30  3:15       ` Akinobu Mita

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