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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 034/131] lib/int_sqrt: optimize small argument
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Tue, 2019-04-02 at 08:59 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 10:42:52AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Mon, 2019-04-01 at 19:01 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > If this is to be ported just for an optimization
> > (which I think is dubious as it's not a bug fix),
> 
> Yes, it was requested to be backported because of that.
> 
> > why not port the __fls optimization too?
> > 
> > __fls has a bigger effect on performance.
> 
> What commit are you referring to?

f8ae107eef209bff29a5816bc1aad40d5cd69a80

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h