From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@iit.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] bitmap.h: add const modifier to bitmap_next_[set/clear]_region() argument
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 12:18:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHp75VdL9du5QRvi9Jz7kjPDrNwqCtH8-1qXsVbKD_BuKM01uA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN8YU5PD9i=qztMLyuFsMQFf80pz04dLOSQ0NJ9=uHb1bTh52w@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 9:39 AM Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com> wrote:
> Il giorno mar 27 lug 2021 alle ore 17:26 Yury Norov
> <yury.norov@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> > On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 02:48:42PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
...
> > I try to remove those two because in practice they bring more mess
> > than good. All real use-cases for bitmap_next_{set,clear}_region
> > relate to iterating the whole bitmap, ie nobody just wants to find a
> > next region. Untill recently there was only a single user of the API,
> > so I easily reworked the code to use find_first_bit/find_next bit and
> > by chance return faster.
>
> Ah, that's interesting to know: I'm working on a new driver that used
> find_next_zero_bit() and find_next_bit() [0]; Andy told me that my
> algorithm could be rewritten exploiting some bitmap_* helpers, so I
> rewrote my code using bitmap_for_each_set_region(), which in turn uses
> bitmap_next_set_region().
>
> Should I revert to my previous implementation that uses
> find_next_zero_bit() and find_next_bit() ?
According to the
https://github.com/norov/linux/commit/a2d6e02d19450a49a55f08c151d1f704723bec1a
they are transformed to for_each_bitrange(), etc.
...
> Looks like also bitmap_for_each_set_region() went away indeed ?
See above.
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-28 9:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-27 9:44 [PATCH v1 1/1] bitmap.h: add const modifier to bitmap_next_[set/clear]_region() argument Andrea Merello
2021-07-27 11:48 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-07-27 15:26 ` Yury Norov
2021-07-28 6:39 ` Andrea Merello
2021-07-28 9:18 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2021-07-28 13:46 ` Yury Norov
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