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From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@linuxonhyperv.com>
To: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>,
	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH] find_bit: Micro-optimise find_next_*_bit
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 09:20:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1482513603-9630-1-git-send-email-mawilcox@linuxonhyperv.com> (raw)

From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>

This saves 20 bytes on my x86-64 build, mostly due to alignment
considerations ... I think it actually saves about five bytes of
instructions.  There's really two parts to this commit.  First, the
first half of the test: (!nbits || start >= nbits) is trivially a subset
of the second half, since nbits and start are both unsigned.  Second,
while looking at the disassembly, I noticed that GCC was predicting the
branch taken.  Since this is a failure case, it's clearly the less likely
of the two branches, so add an unlikely() to override GCC's heuristics.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
---
 lib/find_bit.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/find_bit.c b/lib/find_bit.c
index 18072ea9c20e..7d4a681d625f 100644
--- a/lib/find_bit.c
+++ b/lib/find_bit.c
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ static unsigned long _find_next_bit(const unsigned long *addr,
 {
 	unsigned long tmp;
 
-	if (!nbits || start >= nbits)
+	if (unlikely(start >= nbits))
 		return nbits;
 
 	tmp = addr[start / BITS_PER_LONG] ^ invert;
-- 
2.11.0

             reply	other threads:[~2016-12-23 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-23 17:20 Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2016-12-23 20:43 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2016-12-24  6:43 ` Yury Norov

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