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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Route cache performance under stress
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 11:03:01 +0200
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On Fri, 23 May 2003 01:22:05 -0700 (PDT)
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:


> I believe you.
> 
> Then what does that comment above it mean? :-)

I guess it refers to the implementation, not the code.

For pure 2^n you could implement it much more efficiently using ffz()
(not that it really matters of course, most orders are 0)

-Andi