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SubjectRe: Optimisation for smp_num_cpus loop in hotplug
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In message <200206211531.g5LFViZ07396@localhost.localdomain> you write:
> rusty@rustcorp.com.au said:
> > Yeah, it's simple, and none of the current ones are really critical.
> > But I think we're better off with:
> > for (i = first_cpu(); i < NR_CPUS; i = next_cpu(i)) {
>
> > Which is simple enough not to need an iterator macro, and also has the
> > bonus of giving irq-balancing et al. an efficient, portable way of
> > looking for the "next" cpu.
>
> So you're thinking that next_cpu(i) is something like
>
> __ffs((~(unsigned)((1<<i)-1) & cpu_online_map)
>
> plus an extra exception piece to take next_cpu(i) above NR_CPUS if we have no

> remaining CPUs (because __ffs would be undefined)? It's the exception piece
> that I don't see how to do really efficiently.

find_next_bit already does this, but the generic one would look
something like:

unsigned long mask = ~(unsigned long)((1<<(cpu+1))-1);
if (mask & cpu_online_map)
return _ffs(mask & cpu_online_map);
return NR_CPUS;

Cheers!
Rusty.
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