Hi, On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:01:41AM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > >> Possibly the patches are still good for x86 also, but that needs to be > >> proven. > >> > > not exactly, because x86_64 don’t have hardware instruction to do rbit OP, > > i compile by test : > > For old drivers i386 may be more relevant than x86_64. It seems asm bit reversal is supported in Kernel on arm & arm64 only, not sure whether any other arch even provide asm bit reversal instruction. > These kind of optimizations should have some real world measurements, Not for this case, but once measured on ARM, iirc, a 32-bit asm bit reversal as compared to doing it in C was taking 1 cycle as opposed to ~225 cycles!, of course writing optimized C could have made it fare better, but still would reach no-way near asm bit reversal. Regards Afzal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
