netdev - Re: [SOCK] Avoid divides in sk_stream_pages() and __sk_stream_mem

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Date:	Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:58:09 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dada1@...mosbay.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [SOCK] Avoid divides in sk_stream_pages() and
 __sk_stream_mem_reclaim()

From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:45:08 +0100

> [SOCK] Avoid divides in sk_stream_pages() and __sk_stream_mem_reclaim()
> 
> sk_forward_alloc being signed, we should take care of divides by
> SK_STREAM_MEM_QUANTUM we do in sk_stream_pages() and 
> __sk_stream_mem_reclaim()
> 
> This patchs introduces SK_STREAM_MEM_QUANTUM_SHIFT, defined
> as ilog2(SK_STREAM_MEM_QUANTUM), to be able to use right
> shifts instead of plain divides.
> 
> This should help compiler to choose right shifts instead of
> expensive divides (as seen with CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y on x86)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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