* David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

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> Ingo, what the heck is this?
> 
> commit 64970b68d2b3ed32b964b0b30b1b98518fde388e
> Author: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@mailshack.com>

(Alexander Cc:-ed.)

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> Date:   Tue Mar 11 16:17:19 2008 +0100
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>     x86, generic: optimize find_next_(zero_)bit for small constant-size bitmaps
> 
> Thanks for bloating up the inline expansion of this thing on every 
> architecture that doesn't do __ffs() in a simple sequence of a few 
> instructions like x86 does.

ok, that's bad. How much is the before/after vmlinux btw, i guess you 
measured it? We could either make it per arch selectable, or we could 
just uninline it all. It shouldnt be a big deal on x86 and it should 
help on RISC platforms.

	Ingo
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