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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>,
	Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>,
	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>,
	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>,
	Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@darkjames.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] reciprocal_divide: correction/update of the algorithm
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:37:37 -0600 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1401161036110.29778@nuc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1389828228-30312-3-git-send-email-dborkman@redhat.com>

On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Daniel Borkmann wrote:

> - * or else the performance is slower than a normal divide.
> - */
> -extern u32 reciprocal_value(u32 B);
> +struct reciprocal_value {
> +	u32 m;
> +	u8 sh1, sh2;
> +};
>
> +#define RECIPROCAL_VALUE_RESULT_TO_ZERO ((struct reciprocal_value){.sh1 = 32})
>
> -static inline u32 reciprocal_divide(u32 A, u32 R)
> +struct reciprocal_value reciprocal_value(u32 d);

A function that returns a struct? That works? Which gcc versions support
it?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-16 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-15 23:23 [PATCH net-next 0/2] reciprocal_divide updates Daniel Borkmann
2014-01-15 23:23 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] random32: add prandom_u32_lt_N and convert "misuses" of reciprocal_divide Daniel Borkmann
2014-01-16  0:29   ` Joe Perches
2014-01-16  9:22     ` Daniel Borkmann
2014-01-16  3:14   ` Eric Dumazet
2014-01-16  9:28     ` David Laight
2014-01-16  9:30     ` Daniel Borkmann
2014-01-15 23:23 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] reciprocal_divide: correction/update of the algorithm Daniel Borkmann
2014-01-16  0:17   ` Ben Hutchings
2014-01-16  0:46     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-16  3:07   ` Eric Dumazet
2014-01-16 10:26     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-16 16:37   ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2014-01-16 17:24     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-17 10:05       ` David Laight
2014-01-16 18:50     ` Ben Hutchings

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