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Alexander Lobakin
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The number of times yet another open coded `BITS_TO_LONGS(nbits) * sizeof(long)` can be spotted is huge. Some generic helper is long overdue. Add one, bitmap_size(), but with one detail. BITS_TO_LONGS() uses DIV_ROUND_UP(). The latter works well when both divident and divisor are compile-time constants or when the divisor is not a pow-of-2. When it is however, the compilers sometimes tend to generate suboptimal code (GCC 13): 48 83 c0 3f add $0x3f,%rax 48 c1 e8 06 shr $0x6,%rax 48 8d 14 c5 00 00 00 00 lea 0x0(,%rax,8),%rdx %BITS_PER_LONG is always a pow-2 (either 32 or 64), but GCC still does full division of `nbits + 63` by it and then multiplication by 8. Instead of BITS_TO_LONGS(), use ALIGN() and then divide by 8. GCC: 8d 50 3f lea 0x3f(%rax),%edx c1 ea 03 shr $0x3,%edx 81 e2 f8 ff ff 1f and $0x1ffffff8,%edx Now it shifts `nbits + 63` by 3 positions (IOW performs fast division by 8) and then masks bits[2:0]. bloat-o-meter: add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 20/133 up/down: 156/-773 (-617) Clang does it better and generates the same code before/after starting from -O1, except that with the ALIGN() approach it uses %edx and thus still saves some bytes: add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 9/133 up/down: 18/-538 (-520) Note that we can't expand DIV_ROUND_UP() by adding a check and using this approach there, as it's used in array declarations where expressions are not allowed. Add this helper to tools/ as well. Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com> Acked-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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