Re: [PATCH] __div64_32: implement division by multiplication for 32-bit arches

[Måns Rullgård]

Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, 30 Oct 2015, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
>
>> Hi Nicolas,
>> 
>> On Fri, 2015-10-30 at 11:17 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>> > On Fri, 30 Oct 2015, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> > 
>> > > Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > > 
>> > > > OK... I was intrigued, so I adapted my ARM code to the generic case, 
>> > > > including the overflow avoidance optimizations.  Please have look and 
>> > > > tell me how this works for you.
>> > > > 
>> > > > If this patch is accepted upstream, then it could be possible to 
>> > > > abstract only the actual multiplication part with some architecture 
>> > > > specific assembly.
>> > > 
>> > > Good idea.
>> > 
>> > Could you please provide a reviewed-by or acked-by tag?
>> 
>> Sure!
>> 
>> Acked-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> BTW I thought about that optimization a bit more and now I think
>> we may even skip addition of arch-specific assembly insertions.
>
> I'm going to do it anyway given that I already have it for ARM.  It'll 
> be opt-in, so if your arch doesn't provide it then the current C 
> implementation will be used by default.

Great.  I'll try it out on MIPS once you've posted the patch.

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Måns Rullgård
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