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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [KERNEL]: Avoid divide in IS_ALIGN
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:17:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1195582635.4675.145.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071120135607.GA18346@gondor.apana.org.au>

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 21:56 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> [KERNEL]: Avoid divide in IS_ALIGN
> I was happy to discover the brand new IS_ALIGN macro and quickly
> used it in my code.  To my dismay I found that the generated code
> used division to perform the test.
> This patch fixes it by changing the % test to an &.  This avoids
> the division.

Perhaps this should use is_power_of_2?

#define IS_ALIGNED(x, a) 				\
	({ typeof(x) _a = (typeof(x))(a); 		\
	   is_power_of_2(_a) ? (((x) & (_a - 1)) == 0)	\
			     : (((x) % _a == 0); })

gcc -o2/oS seems to do the right thing.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-20 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-20 13:56 [KERNEL]: Avoid divide in IS_ALIGN Herbert Xu
2007-11-20 18:17 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2007-11-20 20:22   ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-20 21:43 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-11-21 13:06   ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-11-21 13:35     ` Andreas Schwab

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