From: Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>,
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Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>,
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
Ivan, Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] C-language equivalents of include/asm-*/bitops.h
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 05:34:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060126053412.0da7f505.froese@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060126000618.GA5592@twiddle.net>
Richard Henderson wrote:
>
> 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.
Why shift at all?
int ffs(u32 word)
{
int bit = 0;
word &= -word; // only keep the lsb.
if (word & 0xffff0000) bit |= 16;
if (word & 0xff00ff00) bit |= 8;
if (word & 0xf0f0f0f0) bit |= 4;
if (word & 0xcccccccc) bit |= 2;
if (word & 0xaaaaaaaa) bit |= 1;
return bit;
}
Ciao, ET.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-26 4:34 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
2006-01-26 4:34 ` Edgar Toernig [this message]
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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