linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mlx5: avoid 64-bit division

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Date:   Mon, 27 May 2019 22:47:27 +0200
From:   Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Ariel Levkovich <lariel@...lanox.com>,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mlx5: avoid 64-bit division

On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 03:15:34PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 01:19:02PM +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
> > index abac70ad5c7c..340290b883fe 100644
> > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
> > @@ -2344,7 +2344,7 @@ static int handle_alloc_dm_sw_icm(struct ib_ucontext *ctx,
> >  	/* Allocation size must a multiple of the basic block size
> >  	 * and a power of 2.
> >  	 */
> > -	act_size = roundup(attr->length, MLX5_SW_ICM_BLOCK_SIZE(dm_db->dev));
> > +	act_size = round_up(attr->length, MLX5_SW_ICM_BLOCK_SIZE(dm_db->dev));
> >  	act_size = roundup_pow_of_two(act_size);
> 
> It is kind of weird that we have round_up and the bitshift
> version.. None of this is performance critical so why not just use
> round_up everywhere?
> 
> Ariel, it is true MLX5_SW_ICM_BLOCK_SIZE will always be a power of
> two?

If it weren't, the requirements from the comment above could never be
satisfied as a power of two can only be a multiple of another power of
two. Which also means that what the code above does is in fact
equivalent to

	act_size = max_t(u64, roundup_pow_of_two(attr->length),
			 MLX5_SW_ICM_BLOCK_SIZE(dm_db->dev));

or

	act_size = roundup_pow_of_two(max_t(u64, attr->length,
					    MLX5_SW_ICM_BLOCK_SIZE(dm_db->dev));

Michal Kubecek