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From: "Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel@amd.com>
To: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Cc: "iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org"
	<iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
	Hiroshi DOYU <Hiroshi.DOYU@nokia.com>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@codeaurora.org>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] iommu/core: split mapping to page sizes as supported by the hardware
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:12:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110927131222.GL2138@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK=WgbahwY+7Ux-RjW2Tw9WBSwZnYuTMZ2NQASWyOXQ3zF6qFg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 08:26:29AM -0400, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> > With an unsigned long you can use plain and fast bit_ops instead of the
> > full bitmap functions.
> 
> Not sure I follow; the only bit operation I'm using while mapping is
> find_next_bit() (which is a bitops.h method).
> 
> What other faster variant are you referring to ?

You pass a pointer to an unsigned long for the page-size bitmap. This
allows to use an array of unsigned long. But a single unsigned long is
sufficient and you can use functions like ffs() and fls() together with
shifting. These functions often translate to a single intruction in the
binary. The find_next_bit function has much more overhead because it
needs to handle the array-of-ulong case.

	Joerg

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-27 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-16 17:51 [PATCH v3 0/6] iommu: split mapping to page sizes as supported by the hardware Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-09-16 17:51 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] iommu/core: " Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-09-27 10:05   ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-09-27 12:26     ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-09-27 13:12       ` Roedel, Joerg [this message]
2011-09-27 13:28         ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-09-27 18:14           ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-10-02 15:58             ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-10-10  7:40               ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-10-10  9:47               ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-10-10 13:59                 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-10-10 15:36                   ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-10-10 17:02                     ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-10-10 22:01                       ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-10-11 10:21                         ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-10-11 10:19                       ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-10-10 22:49                     ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-10-11 10:38                       ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-10-11 17:01                         ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-10-14 13:35                           ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-10-14 17:03                             ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-10-14 17:05                               ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-10-17  8:05                               ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-10-17  9:28                                 ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-10-17  9:55                                   ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-10-11 14:59                       ` KyongHo Cho
2011-10-11 17:04                         ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-10-10 12:52               ` KyongHo Cho
2011-10-10 14:00                 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-09-16 17:51 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] iommu/omap: announce supported page sizes Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-09-16 17:51 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] iommu/msm: " Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-09-25  5:03   ` David Brown
2011-09-16 17:51 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] iommu/amd: " Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-09-16 17:51 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] iommu/intel: " Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-09-16 17:51 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] iommu/core: remove the temporary register_iommu_pgsize API Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-09-27  8:56 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] iommu: split mapping to page sizes as supported by the hardware Ohad Ben-Cohen

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