Re: [PATCH V2 mmots] fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c: replace shift loop by fls

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon May 19 2014 - 19:22:36 EST


On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 16:09 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2014 22:38:15 +0200 Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Replace while blocksize;shift by fls -1
[]
> fls() always makes my brain hurt. ilog() is nicer?

Maybe take an aspirin?

ilog2(n) is effectively fls(n) - 1 but n can be
either u64 or u64 and ilog2 is compile-time
optimized when n is constant.

blocksize is a non-const u32 here.


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