Re: [PATCH] dax: Fix missed PMD wakeups

From: Boaz Harrosh
Date: Thu Jul 04 2019 - 10:32:30 EST


On 04/07/2019 16:58, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 04:00:00PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
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>> Matthew you must be kidding an ilog2 in binary is zero clocks
>> (Return the highest bit or something like that)
>
> You might want to actually check the documentation instead of just
> making shit up.
>

Yes you are right I stand corrected. Must be smoking ;-)

> https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf
>
> I think in this instance what we want is BSR (aka ffz) since the input is
> going to be one of 0, 1, 3, 7, 15 or 31 (and we want 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 as
> results).
>
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> The compiler doesn't know the range of 'sibs'. Unless we do the
> profile-feedback thing.
>

Would you please consider the use of get_order() macro from #include <getorder.h>
Just for the sake of understanding? (Or at least a comment)

Thanks
Boaz