Re: [announce] [patch] ultra-scalable O(1) SMP and UP scheduler

Davide Libenzi
2002-01-07T03:45:24Z

On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> >
> > 32 bit words lookup can be easily done in few clock cycles in most cpus
> > by using tuned assembly code.
>
> I tried to time "bsfl", it showed up as one cycle more than "nothing" on
> my PII.
>
> It used to be something like 7+n cycles on a i386, if I remember
> correctly. It's just not an issue any more - trying to use clever code to
> avoid it is just silly.

I think the issue was about architectures that does not have bsfl like ops

- Davide