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* [INET] Avoid an integer divide in rt_garbage_collect()
@ 2007-12-21  8:20 Eric Dumazet
  2007-12-21  9:49 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Eric Dumazet @ 2007-12-21  8:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David S. Miller; +Cc: Linux Netdev List

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Since 'goal' is a signed int, compiler may emit an integer divide
to compute goal/2.

Using a right shift is OK here and less expensive.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>


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diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index e35076e..10915bb 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -851,14 +851,14 @@ static int rt_garbage_collect(void)
 			equilibrium = ipv4_dst_ops.gc_thresh;
 		goal = atomic_read(&ipv4_dst_ops.entries) - equilibrium;
 		if (goal > 0) {
-			equilibrium += min_t(unsigned int, goal / 2, rt_hash_mask + 1);
+			equilibrium += min_t(unsigned int, goal >> 1, rt_hash_mask + 1);
 			goal = atomic_read(&ipv4_dst_ops.entries) - equilibrium;
 		}
 	} else {
 		/* We are in dangerous area. Try to reduce cache really
 		 * aggressively.
 		 */
-		goal = max_t(unsigned int, goal / 2, rt_hash_mask + 1);
+		goal = max_t(unsigned int, goal >> 1, rt_hash_mask + 1);
 		equilibrium = atomic_read(&ipv4_dst_ops.entries) - goal;
 	}
 

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* Re: [INET] Avoid an integer divide in rt_garbage_collect()
  2007-12-21  8:20 [INET] Avoid an integer divide in rt_garbage_collect() Eric Dumazet
@ 2007-12-21  9:49 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2007-12-21  9:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dada1; +Cc: netdev

From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:20:50 +0100

> Since 'goal' is a signed int, compiler may emit an integer divide
> to compute goal/2.
> 
> Using a right shift is OK here and less expensive.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>

Applied, thanks.

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