From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761745AbYESRVl (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2008 13:21:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752546AbYESRVe (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2008 13:21:34 -0400 Received: from visualserver.org ([84.242.66.126]:39809 "EHLO visualserver.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751282AbYESRVd (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2008 13:21:33 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 19:21:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Soumyadip Das Mahapatra To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: akinobu.mita@gmail.com Subject: significance of using 2kb long byte_rev_table in lib/bitrev.c Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-visualserver.org-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: BF6E42FB42.AD4C4 X-visualserver.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-visualserver.org-MailScanner-From: kernelhacker@visualserver.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, i cant understand the significance of using 2kb size of bit_rev_table array in lib/bitrev.c I guess it has something to do with bit reversal of a 32 bit word. Well it can be done smoothly without using such a long sized array. I am sending patches regarding this in the following mails. Please review them. Thanks :-) Soumyadip -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.