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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Anshul Garg <aksgarg1989@gmail.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"anshul.g@samsung.com" <anshul.g@samsung.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/int_sqrt.c: Optimize square root function
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 05:15:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1500639310.14415.25.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170721114039.dqip5wj2tha42mol@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Fri, 2017-07-21 at 13:40 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> @@ -21,7 +22,11 @@ unsigned long int_sqrt(unsigned long x)
>  	if (x <= 1)
>  		return x;
>  
> -	m = 1UL << (BITS_PER_LONG - 2);
> +	m = 1UL << (__fls(x) & ~1U);
> +
> +	while (m > x)
> +		m >>= 2;

while (m > x) ?

Belt and suspenders if __fls is broken?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-21 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-02 17:12 [PATCH] lib/int_sqrt.c: Optimize square root function Anshul Garg
2015-02-02 19:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-02 19:13   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-03  4:41     ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-02-03  4:57       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-02-03 15:54       ` Anshul Garg
2017-07-20 11:24     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-20 11:52       ` Joe Perches
2017-07-20 14:13         ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-20 15:27       ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-20 18:31       ` Linus Torvalds
2017-07-20 22:34         ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-20 23:24           ` Linus Torvalds
2017-07-21 11:40             ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-21 12:15               ` Joe Perches [this message]
2017-07-21 13:26                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-07-21 13:33                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-03  4:47   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-02-03 15:42     ` Anshul Garg
2015-02-05 18:20       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-05 18:33         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-05 18:43           ` Anshul Garg
2015-02-05 19:37             ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-08 15:39               ` Anshul Garg
2015-02-02 19:10 ` Joe Perches
2015-02-02 19:39   ` Linus Torvalds
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-01-29 13:35 Anshul Garg

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