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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] bitops: implement "optimized" __find_next_bit()
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:36:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFx-NSOmTC73q=zOmQ-i-h2KhzKnGCsyed6Pq2UGWLxiAA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120207075500.29797.95376.stgit@zurg>

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Konstantin Khlebnikov
<khlebnikov@openvz.org> wrote:
> This patch adds  __find_next_bit() -- static-inline variant of find_next_bit()
> optimized for small constant size arrays, because find_next_bit() is too heavy
> for searching in an array with one/two long elements.
> And unlike to find_next_bit() it does not mask tail bits.

Does anybody else really want this?  My gut feel is that this
shouldn't be inline at all (the same is largely true of the existing
ones), and that nobody else really wants this. Nor do we want to
introduce yet another helper function that has very subtly different
semantics that will just confuse people.

So I suspect this should be instead a function that is internal to the
iterator code.

                  Linus

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-07 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-07  7:54 [PATCH 0/4] radix-tree: iterating general cleanup Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-07  7:55 ` [PATCH 1/4] bitops: implement "optimized" __find_next_bit() Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-07 19:36   ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2012-02-07  7:55 ` [PATCH 2/4] radix-tree: introduce bit-optimized iterator Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-07  7:55 ` [PATCH 3/4] radix-tree: rewrite gang lookup with using iterator Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-07  7:55 ` [PATCH 4/4] radix-tree: use iterators in find_get_pages* functions Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-07 19:38 ` [PATCH 0/4] radix-tree: iterating general cleanup Linus Torvalds
2012-02-08  1:30   ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-02-08  1:50     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-08 21:31       ` Dave Chinner
2012-03-14  7:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-14  7:49   ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-03-14  7:51     ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-14 19:36       ` Hugh Dickins
2012-03-15  0:06         ` Andrew Morton

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