On Monday 16 November 2015 20:20:38 Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> Arnd,
>
> Please pull the following branch:
>
> git://git.linaro.org/people/nicolas.pitre/linux div64
>
> This contains those patches I've initially posted here:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/2/715
>
> Only changes to those posted patches are cosmetic improvements such as
> the use of ilog2() replacing the custom __div64_ffs(). Exposure in
> linux-next would be a good thing.
>
> I also included fixes for a couple do_div() misuses that an allyesconfig
> build turned up after switching ARM to the generic do_div() code.
> Those patches have been posted separately and addressed to relevant
> maintainers. They are included here until/unless those maintainers
> include those patches in their tree.
>
> Original cover letter:
>
> This is a generalization of the optimization I produced for ARM a decade
> ago to turn constant divisors into a multiplication by the divisor
> reciprocal. Turns out that after all those years gcc is still not
> optimizing things on its own for that case.
>
> This has important performance benefits as discussed in this thread:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/28/851
>
> This series brings the formerly ARM-only optimization to all 32-bit
> architectures using C code by default. The possibility for the actual
> multiplication to be implemented in assembly is provided in order to get
> optimal code. The ARM version can be used as an example implementation
> for other interested architectures to implement.
>
Pulled into my asm-generic tree now, it should show up in linux-next
tomorrow.
Thanks,
Arnd
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