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From: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:18:05 +0800

> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
>> At compile time, we can replace the DIV_K instruction (divide by a
>> constant value) by a reciprocal divide.
>>
>> At exec time, the expensive divide is replaced by a multiply, a less
>> expensive operation on most processors.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>

Applied.