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There are a few nits in this function. They could in theory all be separate patches, but that's probably taking small commits too far. 1) I added a brief comment saying what it does. 2) I like to declare pointer parameters "const" where possible for documentation reasons. 3) It uses bitmap_weight(&rand, BITS_PER_LONG) to compute the Hamming weight of a 32-bit random number (giving a random integer with mean 16 and variance 8). Passing by reference in a 64-bit variable is silly; just use hweight32(). 4) Its helper function fract_exp_two is unnecessarily tangled. Gcc can optimize the multiply by (1 << x) to a shift, but it can be written in a much more straightforward way at the cost of one more bit of internal precision. Some analysis reveals that this bit is always available. This shrinks the object code for fract_exp_two(x, 6) from 23 bytes: 0000000000000000 <foo1>: 0: 89 f9 mov %edi,%ecx 2: c1 e9 06 shr $0x6,%ecx 5: b8 01 00 00 00 mov $0x1,%eax a: d3 e0 shl %cl,%eax c: 83 e7 3f and $0x3f,%edi f: d3 e7 shl %cl,%edi 11: c1 ef 06 shr $0x6,%edi 14: 01 f8 add %edi,%eax 16: c3 retq To 19: 0000000000000017 <foo2>: 17: 89 f8 mov %edi,%eax 19: 83 e0 3f and $0x3f,%eax 1c: 83 c0 40 add $0x40,%eax 1f: 89 f9 mov %edi,%ecx 21: c1 e9 06 shr $0x6,%ecx 24: d3 e0 shl %cl,%eax 26: c1 e8 06 shr $0x6,%eax 29: c3 retq (Verified with 0 <= frac_bits <= 8, 0 <= x < 16<<frac_bits; both versions produce the same output.) 5) And finally, the call to bch_get_congested() in check_should_bypass() is separated from the use of the value by multiple tests which could moot the need to compute it. Move the computation down to where it's needed. This also saves a local register to hold the computed value. Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <lkml@sdf.org> Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.