linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] backlight: pwm_bl: drop use of int

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Message-ID: <20191014072734.GG4545@dell>
Date:   Mon, 14 Oct 2019 08:27:34 +0100
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc:     Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@...il.com>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] backlight: pwm_bl: drop use of int_pow()

On Tue, 08 Oct 2019, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:

> For a fixed small exponent of 3, it is more efficient to simply use
> two explicit multiplications rather than calling the int_pow() library
> function: Aside from the function call overhead, its implementation
> using repeated squaring means it ends up doing four 64x64
> multiplications.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
> ---
>  drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied, thanks.

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