Sven Eckelmann wrote: > The Kernighan algorithm is not able to calculate the number of set bits > in parallel and the compiler cannot replace it with optimized > instructions. > > The kernel provides specialised functions for each cpu which can either > use a software implementation or hardware instruction depending on the > target cpu. > > Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]> > ---
Maybe someone could do me the favor and add before the Signed-off-by: line one that mentions that David S. Miller is the actual reporter. This would look something like this: Reported-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]> thanks, Sven
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