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SubjectRe: kmalloc optimization
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Davic Wragg writes:
> Intel's P6 processors have BSR, a cheap (couple of cycles) instruction
> to find the most significant set bit in a word. This can be used in
> kmalloc to identify the slab cache to allocate from; it's quicker than
> the linear search through to cache_sizes array that is currently used.

Actually, what else can benefit from this is searching for free blocks
or inodes in the filesystem bitmaps. It would be especially useful on
nearly-full filesystems.

Cheers, Andreas
--
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\ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert
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