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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org#
Subject: Re: [RHEL5 PATCH 1/4] Provide fallback full 64-bit divide/modulus ops for gcc
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:29:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7510.1155630597@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p734pwea07b.fsf@verdi.suse.de>

Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> At least Linus' traditional argument against this is that it's better
> to open code these (do_div) so that it's clear to the coder that they
> are really costly.

do_div() is not a full replacement for __udivdi3(), __umoddi3() or
__udivmoddi4(), though I suspect we don't need divisor >= 2^32 anywhere atm.

There are places where the compiler emits these that aren't entirely obvious,
one of which IIRC is in ext2 inode allocation.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-15  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-14 21:15 [PATCH 0/4] Use 64-bit inode numbers internally in the kernel David Howells
2006-08-14 21:15 ` [RHEL5 PATCH 1/4] Provide fallback full 64-bit divide/modulus ops for gcc David Howells
2006-08-15  6:44   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-15  8:10   ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-15  8:29     ` David Howells [this message]
2006-08-18  8:39       ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-18 10:33         ` David Howells
2006-08-14 21:15 ` [RHEL5 PATCH 2/4] VFS: Make inode numbers 64-bits David Howells
2006-08-15  1:31   ` Al Viro
2006-08-15  8:21     ` David Howells
2006-08-15  9:06       ` Al Viro
2006-08-15  8:32     ` David Howells
2006-08-15  9:02       ` Al Viro
2006-08-15  9:25         ` David Howells
2006-08-15 12:45           ` Stephen Rothwell
2006-08-15  6:48   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-14 21:15 ` [RHEL5 PATCH 3/4] VFS: Clear up u-long-long ino_t print format warnings David Howells
2006-08-14 21:15 ` [RHEL5 PATCH 4/4] VFS: Fix 64-bit ino_t warning in CacheFiles facility David Howells
2006-08-15  0:36 ` [PATCH 0/4] Use 64-bit inode numbers internally in the kernel Josh Boyer
2006-08-15  8:21   ` David Howells
2006-08-15  9:13     ` Al Viro

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