RE: [PATCH] Optimized division operation to shift operation

[David Laight]

From: Christian KÃnig
> Sent: 15 April 2020 08:57
> Am 15.04.20 um 09:41 schrieb Jani Nikula:
> > On Tue, 14 Apr 2020, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 9:05 AM Bernard Zhao <bernard@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> On some processors, the / operate will call the compiler`s div lib,
> >>> which is low efficient, We can replace the / operation with shift,
> >>> so that we can replace the call of the division library with one
> >>> shift assembly instruction.
> > This was applied already, and it's not in a driver I look after... but
> > to me this feels like something that really should be
> > justified. Using >> instead of / for multiples of 2 division mattered 20
> > years ago, I'd be surprised if it still did on modern compilers.
> 
> I have similar worries, especially since we replace the "/ (4 * 2)" with
> ">> 3" it's making the code just a bit less readable.
> 
> And that the code runs exactly once while loading the driver and pushing
> the firmware into the hardware. So performance is completely irrelevant
> here.

Force the division to be unsigned and the compiler will use a shift.

	David

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