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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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To: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] i386: bitops: Kill needless usage of __asm__ __volatile__ II
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BTW if you want to optimize inline asm code a bit -- find_first_bit / 
find_first_zero_bit / for_each_cpu could really benefit from a optimized version 
for cpumask_t sized bitmaps. That would  save a lot of cycles in some of the 
hotter paths of the kernel like the scheduler.

-Andi