On 23 Apr 2002, Robert Love wrote:
> > i'd suggest the following: keep the current hand-optimized one for the
> > bitrange it's good for, and use the find_bit variant for all other values.
> > (We had this before, check out some of the older versions of the O(1)
> > scheduler.)
>
> In earlier releases we have
>
> include/asm-i386/mmu_context.h :: sched_find_first_zero_bit
>
> but that seems to operate on a 168-bit bitmap only. Around what time
> did we have a routine that operated on arbitrary maps? What name/file?
hm, perhaps it was only my own internal version then.
in any case, you can use the find_first_zero_bit() library function i
added for exactly this purpose. Any problems with that? It wont be the
fastest option, but it will do.
Ingo
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