From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965242Ab3DHVfX (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Apr 2013 17:35:23 -0400 Received: from perches-mx.perches.com ([206.117.179.246]:43291 "EHLO labridge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964970Ab3DHVfW (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Apr 2013 17:35:22 -0400 Message-ID: <1365456922.2029.18.camel@joe-AO722> Subject: Re: [PATCH] bitmap: speedup in bitmap_find_free_region when order is 0 From: Joe Perches To: Andrew Morton Cc: Chanho Min , Nadia Yvette Chambers , Jiri Kosina , Guennadi Liakhovetski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:35:22 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20130408143037.5fe18306172315fc040329de@linux-foundation.org> References: <1365387828-24326-1-git-send-email-chanho.min@lge.com> <20130408143037.5fe18306172315fc040329de@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.2-0ubuntu0.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 14:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 11:23:48 +0900 Chanho Min wrote: > > --- a/lib/bitmap.c [] > > +static int __bitmap_find_free_one(unsigned long *bitmap, int bits) [] > > + unsigned long mask = (unsigned long)(~((unsigned long) 0)); > > That seems unnecessarily complicated. "unsigned long mask = -1;" works :) So would ULONG_MAX or just ~0UL