Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] Introduce the for_each_set_clump macro

William Breathitt Gray
2020-05-05T14:54:12Z

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On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 04:51:56PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 5:41 PM William Breathitt Gray
> <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 02:41:09PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 04:38:36AM +0530, Syed Nayyar Waris wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > Looking into the last patches where we have examples I still do not see a
> > > benefit of variadic clump sizes. power of 2 sizes would make sense (and be
> > > optimized accordingly (64-bit, 32-bit).
> > >
> > > --
> > > With Best Regards,
> > > Andy Shevchenko
> >
> > There is of course benefit in defining for_each_set_clump with clump
> > sizes of powers of 2 (we can optimize for 32 and 64 bit sizes and avoid
> > boundary checks that we know will not occur), but at the very least the
> > variable size bitmap_set_value and bitmap_get_value provide significant
> > benefit for the readability of the gpio-xilinx code:
> >
> > bitmap_set_value(old, state[0], 0, width[0]);
> > bitmap_set_value(old, state[1], width[0], width[1]);
> > ...
> > state[0] = bitmap_get_value(new, 0, width[0]);
> > state[1] = bitmap_get_value(new, width[0], width[1]);
> >
> > These lines are simple and clear to read: we know immediately what they
> > do. But if we did not have bitmap_set_value/bitmap_get_value, we'd have
> > to use several bitwise operations for each line; the obfuscation of the
> > code would be an obvious hinderance here.
>
> Do I understand correctly that width[0] and width[1] may not be power
> of two and it's actually the case?
>
> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko

I'm under the impression that width[0] and width[1] are arbitrarily
chosen by the user and could be any integer. I have never used this
hardware so I'm hoping one of the gpio-xilinx or GPIO subsystem
maintainers in this thread will respond with some guidance.

If the values of width[0] and width[1] are restricted to powers of 2,
then I agree that there is no need for generic bitmap_set_value and
bitmap_get_value functions and we can instead use more optimized power
of 2 versions.

William Breathitt Gray

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