Re: [PATCH 2/3] lib: Improve EWMA efficiency by using bitshifts

From: Bruno Randolf
Date: Thu Dec 02 2010 - 05:38:30 EST


On Thu December 2 2010 19:20:22 Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 19:12 +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote:
> > + /* get bitshift for weight */
> > + for (n = 0; !(weight & 1); n++)
> > + weight = weight >> 1;
> > + WARN_ON(weight > 1 || n < 1);
>
> I'm sure there's something like log2() (and is_power_of_2() for the
> warning) in the kernel already -- no need to reimplement it...

Ah, thanks for that! Will resend an improved version.

bruno
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