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Steven Rostedt wrote:

>OK, still looks like the generic ffb can be changed.  Unless I'm missing
>something, this shows that I probably should be sending in a patch now
>to replace the find_first_bit.  Ingo's sched_find_first_bit is still the
>winner, but that is customed to the scheduler, until we need a
>configurable priority.
>
>What do you think?
>
>  
>

Sure, if it is correct and faster.
Just don't mark the (*b) test as unlikely.


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