Robert,
Im on it...I have submitted a few more patches in the past week or
so and a few were accepted...will update on the wiki soon.
Vignesh
On 8/26/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> is anyone still working on the power-of-2 stuff? surely, there's a
> cleaner way to code this from fs/namespace.c:
>
>
> /*
> * Find the power-of-two list-heads that can fit into the allocation..
> * We don't guarantee that "sizeof(struct list_head)" is necessarily
> * a power-of-two.
> */
> nr_hash = PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct list_head);
> hash_bits = 0;
> do {
> hash_bits++;
> } while ((nr_hash >> hash_bits) != 0);
> hash_bits--;
>
> /*
> * Re-calculate the actual number of entries and the mask
> * from the number of bits we can fit.
> */
> nr_hash = 1UL << hash_bits;
> hash_mask = nr_hash - 1;
>
>
> rday
>
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