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Message-Id: <3f6df876-4b25-4dc8-bbac-ce678c428d86@app.fastmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:23:33 +0100
From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To: "Alexander Lobakin" <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>,
 "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
 "Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@...gle.com>, "Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@...nel.org>,
 "Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: "Michal Swiatkowski" <michal.swiatkowski@...ux.intel.com>,
 "Marcin Szycik" <marcin.szycik@...ux.intel.com>,
 "Wojciech Drewek" <wojciech.drewek@...el.com>,
 "Yury Norov" <yury.norov@...il.com>, "Andy Shevchenko" <andy@...nel.org>,
 "Rasmus Villemoes" <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
 "Alexander Potapenko" <glider@...gle.com>, "Jiri Pirko" <jiri@...nulli.us>,
 "Ido Schimmel" <idosch@...dia.com>,
 "Przemek Kitszel" <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>,
 "Simon Horman" <horms@...nel.org>, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
 dm-devel@...hat.com, ntfs3@...ts.linux.dev, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
 "intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org" <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>,
 Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 "Syed Nayyar Waris" <syednwaris@...il.com>,
 "William Breathitt Gray" <william.gray@...aro.org>,
 "Andy Shevchenko" <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 01/21] lib/bitmap: add bitmap_{read,write}()

On Thu, Feb 1, 2024, at 13:21, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> From: Syed Nayyar Waris <syednwaris@...il.com>
>
> The two new functions allow reading/writing values of length up to
> BITS_PER_LONG bits at arbitrary position in the bitmap.
>
> The code was taken from "bitops: Introduce the for_each_set_clump macro"
> by Syed Nayyar Waris with a number of changes and simplifications:
>  - instead of using roundup(), which adds an unnecessary dependency
>    on <linux/math.h>, we calculate space as BITS_PER_LONG-offset;
>  - indentation is reduced by not using else-clauses (suggested by
>    checkpatch for bitmap_get_value());
>  - bitmap_get_value()/bitmap_set_value() are renamed to bitmap_read()
>    and bitmap_write();
>  - some redundant computations are omitted.

These functions feel like they should not be inline but are
better off in lib/bitmap.c given their length.

As far as I can tell, the header ends up being included
indirectly almost everywhere, so just parsing these functions
likey adds not just dependencies but also compile time.

     Arnd

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