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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Antonio Vargas <wind@cocodriloo.com>
Cc: Thomas Schlichter <schlicht@uni-mannheim.de>,
	Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbarnes@sgi.com, steiner@sgi.com
Subject: Re: hash table sizes
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:54:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031125175415.GC8039@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031125175215.GB30083@wind.cocodriloo.com>

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:52:15PM +0100, Antonio Vargas wrote:
> is fls(x) sort-of log2(x) via some "find-highest-bit-set"?
> I recall discussing something related with Jesse Barnes
> last 5 november (search for "[DMESG] cpumask_t in action" in lkml).
> [SNIP]
> Greets, Antonio Vargas

fls() computes floor(lg(n)) via "find highest bit", yes. It stands
for "find last set".


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-25 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-25 13:35 hash table sizes Jes Sorensen
2003-11-25 13:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-25 13:54   ` Jes Sorensen
2003-11-25 16:25     ` Thomas Schlichter
2003-11-25 17:52       ` Antonio Vargas
2003-11-25 17:54         ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-11-25 20:48 ` Jack Steiner
2003-11-25 21:07   ` Andrew Morton
2003-11-25 21:14     ` Jesse Barnes
2003-11-25 21:24       ` Andrew Morton
2003-11-26  2:14         ` David S. Miller
2003-11-26  5:27         ` Matt Mackall
2003-11-28 14:15         ` Jes Sorensen
2003-11-28 14:52           ` Jack Steiner
2003-11-28 16:22             ` Jes Sorensen
2003-11-28 19:35               ` Jack Steiner
2003-11-28 21:18                 ` Jörn Engel
2003-12-01  9:46                   ` Jes Sorensen
2003-12-01 21:06     ` Anton Blanchard
2003-12-01 22:57       ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-11-25 21:16   ` Anton Blanchard
2003-11-25 23:11     ` Jack Steiner
2003-11-26  3:39       ` Rik van Riel
2003-11-26  3:59         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26  4:25           ` Andrew Morton
2003-11-26  4:23             ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26  5:14           ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-11-26  9:51             ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26 16:17               ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-11-26  7:25       ` Anton Blanchard
2003-11-26  5:53 Zhang, Yanmin
2003-11-29 10:39 Manfred Spraul

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