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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
To: swise@opengridcomputing•com
Cc: rdreier@cisco•com, randy.dunlap@oracle•com,
	linux-next@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	general@lists•openfabrics.org
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 2.6.30] RDMA/cxgb3: Remove modulo math.
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:07:40 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090210.170740.208470781.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <499223F8.1010204@opengridcomputing.com>

From: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing•com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:03:52 -0600

> Roland Dreier wrote:
> > I'll roll this into the offending patch (that is in -next).
> >
> > But:
> >
> >  > -		wqe->recv.sgl[i].to = cpu_to_be64(((u32) wr->sg_list[i].addr) %
> >  > -				(1UL << (12 + page_size[i])));
> >  > +		wqe->recv.sgl[i].to = cpu_to_be64(((u64) wr->sg_list[i].addr) &
> >  > +				((1UL << (12 + page_size[i]))-1));
> >
> > Is this required?  Strength reduction optimization should do this
> > automatically (and the code has been there for quite a while, so
> > obviously it isn't causing problems)
> >
> >  - R.
> >   
> Ok.

GCC won't optimize that modulus the way you expect, try for yourself
and look at the assembler if you don't believe me. :-)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-11  1:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-10 18:44 [ofa-general] [PATCH 2.6.30] RDMA/cxgb3: Remove modulo math Steve Wise
2009-02-10 19:04 ` [ofa-general] " Randy Dunlap
2009-02-10 19:10   ` Steve Wise
2009-02-10 19:12     ` Randy Dunlap
2009-02-11  0:38 ` [ofa-general] " Roland Dreier
2009-02-11  1:03   ` Steve Wise
     [not found]   ` <499223F8.1010204@opengridcomputing.com>
2009-02-11  1:07     ` David Miller [this message]
2009-02-11  1:18       ` Roland Dreier
2009-02-11  1:23         ` David Miller
2009-02-11  7:20           ` Roland Dreier
2009-02-11  8:00             ` David Miller
2009-02-11 15:44   ` Steve Wise
2009-02-11 18:12     ` Roland Dreier
2009-02-11 18:32       ` Steve Wise
2009-02-11 18:36         ` Roland Dreier
2009-02-11 18:44           ` Steve Wise

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