On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:02:13 +0100 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just noticed this while looking at a bug. > Avoid an expensive integer divide 3 times per CPU per tick. Integer divide is cheap on some modern processors, and multibit shift isn't on all embedded ones. How about putting back scale = 1 and using scale += scale; instead of the shift and getting what ought to be even better results - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/