Re: [PATCH v12 01/11] bitops: Introduce the for_each_set_clump8 macro

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:43:45AM +0100, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 12:14:22PM +0900, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 10:38:54AM +0100, Lukas Wunner wrote:

> > Is this the sort of implementation you had in mind:
> > 
> >         offset = find_next_bit(addr, size, offset);
> >         if (offset == size)
> >                 return size;
> > 
> >         offset -= offset % 8;
> >         *clump = bitmap_get_value8(addr, size, offset);
> > 
> >         return offset;
> 
> Almost.  I'd use round_down() instead of "offset -= offset % 8".
> Then it's just a single cheap logical and operation at runtime.

> I'd try to avoid copying around the clump value and use a pointer
> to u8 instead.

u8 might be inconvenient in environment where everything else is type of
unsigned long.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko