Re: [PATCH] Make shr to divide by power of 2 (resend)

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (08/15/09 09:49), Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:49:15 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>,
> 	Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> 	linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make shr to divide by power of 2 (resend)
> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23)
> 
> On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 
> > On 08/15/2009 03:43 PM, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > > Make an arithmetic right shift to divide by power of 2.
> >
> > Why? Is out there a compiler not doing that?
> >
> > Seems like it should be rather converted to DIV_ROUND_UP.
> >

                                 
It was duscussed, so I'll just copy paste my answer.
On (08/08/09 09:35), Andi Kleen wrote:
> DIV should be always slower than a SHIFT.
>
> But it has nothing really to do with the CPU. The point is that the compiler
> always selects a suitable one by itself. Rewriting x / 2 to x >> 1 is
> one of the easiest exercises in compiler optimizations.
>
> The only case when the compiler cannot do this easily by itself is
> when the dividend is not a constant.
>

        int width = (vc->vc_font.width + 7) >> 3;

> That said -Os sometimes screws us up on this, but it's still not worth
> doing this change manually.
>

My point is that it should 'look the same'.
I mean there are 5
        int width = (vc->vc_font.width + 7) >> 3;
*not exactly this one, but vc->vc_font.width (+ 7)? >> 3

and _only_ one
        int width = (vc->vc_font.width + 7) / 8;


>   it does seem like a DIV_ROUND_UP would be better but perhaps another
> solution would be to define a meaningful macro name for that
> operation.  if that conversion is going to be done regularly, a macro
> with an informative name might be in order.  if it's a one-shot
> operation, though, not much point.
> 

No, it's not a one-shot.

grep -c '>>' bitblit.c
7

	Sergey

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